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The Space Task Group was led by Robert Gilruth, not the fictional character Al Harrison, who was created to simplify a more complex management structure. The scene where Harrison smashes the Colored Ladies Room sign never happened, as in real life Johnson refused to walk the extra distance to use the colored bathroom and, in her words, "just ...
3 sty 2017 · Not exactly. In researching the Hidden Figures true story, we learned that Kevin Costner's character, Al Harrison, is based on three different directors at NASA Langley during Katherine Johnson's time at the research facility.
1 gru 2016 · XX wieku podjęły pracę dla NASA. Pokonując niewyobrażalne przeszkody społeczne i obyczajowe, pomogły wysłać w kosmos pierwszego Amerykanina, astronautę Johna Glenna, inicjując tym samym kosmiczny wyścig między światowymi mocarstwami.
7 sty 2017 · The Al Harrison character (played by Kevin Costner) is largely based on Robert C. Gilruth, the head of the Space Task Group at Langley Research Center and later the first director of what is now the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
30 sty 2017 · A mathematician, Dorothy Vaughan was the first African-American woman to be promoted as a head of personnel at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, later known as NASA. She was...
3 lut 2017 · This happens literally in the film, when the head of the Space Task Group, Al Harrison (Kevin Costner) destroys the "colored ladies room" bathroom sign.
28 lut 2017 · Hidden Figures: the true story behind the women who changed Nasa's place in the Space Race. WIRED speaks to Nasa's chief historian Bill Barry about the role the Katherine G. Johnson,...
