The Company reserves the right to change these conditions from time to time as it sees fit and your continued use of the site will signify your acceptance of any adjustment to these terms. The Mercury 7 astronauts visit Langley, and astronaut John Glenn goes out of his way to greet the West Area women. Hidden Figures DVD [2017] DescriptionThe incredible untold true story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Failure of either Party to insist upon strict performance of any provision of this or any Agreement or the failure of either Party to exercise any right or remedy to which it, he or they are entitled hereunder shall not constitute a waiver thereof and shall not cause a diminution of the obligations under this or any Agreement.

The Space Task Group watches a newsreel about Russia's launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. It's Johnson and by extension Henson's performance of her, as a single mother and widow who is trying to forge new ground at the work place and at home with her relationships, that steals the show. As NASA's leading minds struggle to work out complicated maths problems in the lead-up to the launch of John Glenn (Glen Powell)'s Apollo 11 space mission, the Agency brings in a group of African-American women with the reputation of being human computers. The orbit plots displayed in the front of the room incorrectly show a six-orbit mission, which did not happen until Wally Schirra's MA-8 mission in October 1962. The NASA employees are gathered out on the launch site to meet the astronauts, including John Glenn (Glen Powell).He asks if they've met the astronauts; Mary answers that they have but it's clear from the others' expressions that they're kept separate from them. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 74 out of 100, based on 47 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Perspective | For 16-year-old Black girl nerds, it's good that Katherine Johnson is no longer hidden". At the barbecue afterwards, Mary signals for the man, Jim Johnson, to come over and talk to Katherine.

This may have slipped off people's radars during awards season, but now that it's available on video, seek the time out to experience this.C. (sponsored by Henson), in Chicago (also Henson), in Houston (by Parsons), in Hazelwood, Missouri (by Melfi and actress/co-producer Kimberly Quinn), and in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia (both sponsored by Williams).