Summary: Don T Get To The Moon, Directed By Theodore Melfi

Rockets just don't get to the moon by themselves. No, it takes men! Men to build them, men to fly them, men to plot their complicated trajectories! White men! Or so the thinking went back in 1961, back when America's Mercury space program was just getting off the ground. Yes, there were people other than men at NASA working too mission is to explore space and aeronautics, or flight research. There are quite a few women working in the space program. Some of those women work at Langley's West Campus, where the "colored people" are kept. They and others do important work: They're the computers before the computer age, women who calculate and crunch the numbers that are so critical to the space program's future. But these computers are kept apart from the rest. They have their own bathrooms, their own cafeterias, their own coffee machines. …show more content…
Sometimes, however, talent and determination have a way of making their own futures and with brilliant minds needed more than ever in NASA. Some of those brilliant minds might just be working out of the West Campus, using the bathrooms labeled "Colored Women Only." Now the movie in the process of being reviewed is Hidden Figures. The movie was directed by Theodore Melfi. Theodore Melfi is an American screenwriter, film director and producer, best known for his debut film St. Vincent, starring Bill Murray. The studio that produced Hidden Figures was 20th Century Fox and was released Dec. 25, 2016. The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and other missions. The film also features Octavia Spencer as