Mimi Valdes, executive producer of the film "Hidden Figures", speaks at a "Hidden Figures" book event with fellow panelists Dr. Ellen Stofan, NASA chief scientist, left; "Hidden Figures" author Margot Lee Shetterly, second from left; Christyl Johnson, NASA Modern Figure, Goddard Space Flight Center, center; and Knatokie Ford, senior policy advisor, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, second from right, Wednesday December 14, 2016 at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington. The film, based on the book, chronicles the lives of Katherin

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Mimi Valdes, executive producer of the film "Hidden Figures", speaks at a "Hidden Figures" book event with fellow panelists Dr. Ellen Stofan, NASA chief scientist, left; "Hidden Figures" author Margot Lee Shetterly, second from left; Christyl Johnson, NASA Modern Figure, Goddard Space Flight Center, center; and Knatokie Ford, senior policy advisor, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, second from right, Wednesday December 14, 2016 at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington. The film, based on the book, chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- African-American women working at NASA as “human computers,” who were critical to the success of John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission in 1962. /Aubrey Gemignani)

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