“The movie takes a lot of things that happened in the 1950s and moved them into that time period to tell the story effectively.” “It’s a great moment in the film, but they took a little dramatic license with it,” said Barry. Unfortunately, it’s not an entirely true representation of the organisation at the time. It’s symbolic as an example of the racial barriers being smashed for black people at Nasa. There is a poignant scene in which the character Al Harrison, Johnson’s supervisor played by Kevin Costner, breaks down the “colored bathroom” sign. Throughout Hidden Figures we see these barriers of racial discrimination outside Langley being broken down as the women strive to be more than just computers. She went on to work in aeronautics research, on the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 missions Nasa Katherine Johnson continued working as a Nasa analyst until the early 1980s. ****: Alan Shepard made the first Mercury flight, becoming the first American in space, followed by Gus Grissom and later John Glenn who, in 1962, became the first American to orbit Earth. Enos launched on an Atlas rocket and made two orbits around Earth, proving to Nasa the journey was safe for astronauts. ****: A rhesus monkey called Sam, and two chimpanzees, Ham and Enos, flew in Mercury capsules before humans. The first Atlas rocket with a Mercury capsule exploded, while the first Mercury-Redstone launch only went four inches off the ground.
****: Before astronauts flew in Project Mercury, Nasa conducted unmanned test flights. The other four went into orbit and circled Earth. ****: Two of Project Mercury's flights were suborbital, meaning they reached space and returned immediately. The first of six flights under the program was made in 1961, the last took place in 1963. ****: Project Mercury was the Nasa program that put the first American astronauts in space.
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