English: From left: Founding Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture Lonnie G. Bunch III, American actor, film director, and producer Kevin Costner, American musical recording artist, actress, and model Janelle Monáe, "Hidden Figures" author Margot Lee Shetterly, American singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams, American actress Octavia Spencer, Katherine Johnson's daughter Joylette Goble, American actress and singer Taraji P. Henson, 21st Century Fox Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs Rick Lane, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, director Theodore Melfi, and producer Mimi Valdés pose for a picture on the red carpet before a screening of the film “Hidden Figures” at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 in Washington DC. The film is based on the book of the same title, by Margot Lee Shetterly, and chronicles the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson -- African-American women working at NASA as “human computers,” who were critical to the success of John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission in 1962.