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“Every time we get a chance to get ahead they move the finish line. Every time.” Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae)
Was it really such a short time ago that we couldn’t share a bathroom. Well, I guess it still goes on today. As the Mercury Project progresses, we see how Harrison (Costner) is so focused on getting the job done, that he is oblivious to the extra challenges faced by Katherine (Taraji P. Henson) – that is until her emotions erupt in a scene that will have Henson under Oscar consideration. My favorite scene is when Al Harrison (Kevin Costner) breaks down the colored woman’s bathroom sign to show that everyone can share the same restroom claiming “Here at NASA, we all pee the same color!”
Our actual history is filled with people and events that we just never learned about. like *The Imitation Game*, “Hidden Figures” is one of those movies that shines a light on three brilliant and amazing women and their unheralded contribution to the space program. This is the larger than life (yet true) story of how these three ladies ended up playing an important and critical role, in the space race, in particular getting John Glenn into orbit, yet at the same time suffering from the racial segregation.
Hard to believe the space program relied in manual calculations before NASA got their computers.