Truth in Television, as he was her longtime mentor and supporter in real life. Benevolent Boss: Mary's boss urges her to go for a promotion to engineer, noting that if a Polish Jewish refugee like himself can make it in America, so can she.Badass Boast: Katherine listing off her skills and qualifications to a dismissive Jim Johnson, before excusing herself and walking off.These are day-one rocket science concepts being introduced for the viewer - it's not the type of talk that would happen at NASA in reality, even that early in the space race. Paul Stafford explaining to his team how Glenn would go into an elliptical orbit around the Earth and a parabolic orbit for landing.Justified, as this is an actual rocket science problem being discussed, and it clues the audience in on the level of work needed and the stakes involved. The vectors with unknown values (speed, distance, deceleration, etc.) that are required to get John Glenn's capsule landed back on Earth safety are asked by Katherine and confirmed by Paul during Paul's briefing on the subject to all of the mathematicians.Artistic Licence – Military: Jim Johnson is shown wearing a dress uniform that has practically no markings when it should have had unit patches on the shoulders, a name plate on the right breast, and a ribbon rack on the left breast along with an assortment of badges and qualifications.While John Glenn did specifically ask for Katherine to check the figures, she had a few days to look over them, as opposed to a few hours.She also gained access to editorial meetings through persistence. The film depicts Katherine being assigned to Flight Research much later than in real life she was assigned in 1953 and had co-authored her first report by 1960.She just asked the city of Hampton for an exception, and it was granted. Mary didn't need to get a court order to attend her classes.It was years before someone complained, and Katherine simply ignored it (and the issue was dropped). Katherine just started using the white bathroom, unaware that there was a problem. Katherine is shown having to run across the lot so she can use the segregated bathrooms - when this was Mary in real life.What's more is that the segregated computing facilities had been abolished at the end of the '50s, so the department was integrated at that point. Dorothy is depicted as being promoted to supervisor only after John Glenn's flight.John Glenn was in his forties when he went into space.Katherine's children were teenagers when she first married Jim Johnson. Using their calculations, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to make a complete orbit of the Earth. The film recounts the story of the African-American mathematician Katherine Johnson and her two colleagues, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, who, while working in the segregated West Area Computers division of Langley Research Center, helped NASA catch up in the Space Race. The film also features Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell and Mahershala Ali. Henson as Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon. Hidden Figures is a 2016 biographical comedy-drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. Karl Zielinski: Let me ask you, if you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer?
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