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Mon, Nov 28, 2016

Stars Join NASA To Mark Langley Anniversary, Celebration Of Diversity

Will Focus On The Real People Behind Film 'Hidden Figures'

NASA will kick off a yearlong centennial celebration for its Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, with events Thursday, Dec. 1 highlighting the critical work done by the African American women of Langley’s West Computing Unit, a story told in the book and upcoming movie "Hidden Figures".

The day will begin with an education event at 11 a.m. EST, featuring NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, along with Film director Ted Melfi; Octavia Spencer, who plays NASA mathematician Dorothy Vaughan in the movie; Chief Historian Bill Barry, who consulted on the film, and; NASA Modern Figure Julie Williams-Byrd, an electro-optics engineer for the Space Mission Analysis Branch at Langley.

That evening, the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton will host a special screening of the movie for NASA officials and the families of the women featured in the movie and the book on which it’s based, written by Hampton native Margot Lee Shetterly.

Langley was established in 1917 as the nation’s first civil aeronautics laboratory, and became the birthplace of the U.S. space program in the 1950s. It was here that Neil Armstrong and other astronauts learned to land on the moon in the 1960s, and the women featured in Hidden Figures,  Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, known as “human computers” who helped put John Glenn in orbit.

(Source: NASA news release. Image from file)

FMI: www.nasa.gov

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