English: American musical recording artist, actress, and model Janelle Monáe, speaks on a panel after a screening of the film “Hidden Figures” at the White House, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 in Washington. 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.