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HIDDEN FIGURES, By Theodore Melfi

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Based on the nonfiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly, HIDDEN FIGURES is directed by Theodore Melfi and the movie genre is biographical drama movie based by true story of a three African-American women who worked for NASA in the 1950s and '60s. They served as "human computers," doing complex mathematics and engineering tasks to help launch the manned spaceflight program particularly, sending astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell) into orbit. Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae) are all brilliant women who've landed jobs as computers at NASA's Langley Research Center (in the segregated West Area Computers division). When Al Harrison (Kevin Costner), director of the Space Task Group, needs someone who can do theoretical math to help NASA with calculations that would outperform the Russians in the Space Race. …show more content…

The main character their work with NASA at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Several moment later when the car broke down a policeman from Virginia stop and ask what is going here. Mary Jackson answer the policeman with a rude tone but just before the policeman want to arrest Mary Jackson, Dorothy tell the police they are in a hurry to go to their workplace at NASA. After that the policeman immediately escort them to their workplace. Dorothy and her fellow, female friend’s carpoolers, Mary Jackson and Katherine Goble, work at Langley's West Campus, where the "colored people" are kept. They and others do important work computers before the computer age, women who calculate and crunch the numbers that are so critical to the space program's

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