From left to right, acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot; "Hidden Figures" author Margot Lee Shetterly; “Hidden Figures” filmmaker Ted Melfi; and NASA astronaut Alvin Drew pose for a photo after Shetterly and Melfi were awarded the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal, Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
From left to right, acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot; “Hidden Figures” author Margot Lee Shetterly; “Hidden Figures” filmmaker Ted Melfi; and NASA astronaut Alvin Drew pose for a group photo after Shetterly and Melfi were awarded the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal, Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The “Hidden Figures” film was based on the book by Shetterly, and 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.
Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)