Hidden Figures movie poster.
Movie (2016)
French title: Les figures de l'ombre
Starring:
Taraji P. Henson (Katherine Goble Johnson, mathematician)
Octavia Spencer (Dorothy Vaughan, mathematician and supervisor)
Janelle Monáe (Mary Jackson, who becomes an engineer)
Kevin Costner (Al Harrison, director of the Space Task Group)
The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Douglas DC-3[]
OKB-1 Vostok 3KA[]
Take off of the R-7 Semyorka rocket for the first human space flight known as Vostok 1 mission.
Aero Commander 500[]
(bottom right) Desk model.
Chrysler Mercury Redstone[]
Ignition !
Sikorsky HUS-1 Seahorse[]
Sikorsky HUS-1 Seahorse Bu. No. 148755. Registered N4216H in 1981 once on the civil market. Deregistered in 2013.
Same aircraft in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft.
McDonnell Mercury spacecraft[]
Unidentified Mercury spacecraft. Later we can see action with John Glenn (actor : Glen Powell) with Friendship 7 spacecraft.
Convair Atlas LV-3B[]
North American F-100 Super Sabre[]
DVD Extras[]
The DVD release includes documentary with some footage reused from the movie like...
McDonnell Aircraft Mercury spacecraft[]
Friendship 7 used for the third US human spaceflight on Mercury-Atlas 6 mission (February 20, 1962).
... but too some unseen machines. They are :
Wright Flyer I[]
Well known picture of the first airplane flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina; December 17, 1903.
Hanriot-Clerget 50 ch[]
Reims, France 1911. First French military competition.
Curtiss JN-4 Jenny[]
Sperry Messenger[]
A Sperry Messenger mounted for testing in Langley's propeller research tunnel in 1927.
North American P-51B Mustang[]
North American P-51B Mustang in the full-scale NACA wind tunnel, Langley, Virginia, United States.
Little Joe rocket[]
Little Joe 1 launch vehicle with Mercury capsule, August 1959 (flight LJ-6).
Explorer 17 satellite[]
Explorer 17 (also known as Atmosphere Explorer-A (AE-A) and S6) was the first United States satellite, launched on April 3, 1963.
Chrysler Mercury Redstone[]
Mercury astronauts John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. Grissom and Alan B. Shepard Jr. standing by the Redstone rocket in their spacesuits.
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk[]
So not only an interesting biographical film on the three heroines but too an eye catching for aviation and space amateur. LVCDC 13:09, 2 March 2018 (MST)
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