NASA Presents Exceptional Public Achievement Award to Hidden Figures Director, Author

NASA presented its Exceptional Public Achievement Award to Ted Melfi and Margot Lee Shetterly, Feb. 15 at the agency’s headquarters. Melfi and Shetterly are the director and author, respectively of the movie and book “Hidden Figures”, which highlights a group of female NASA mathematicians that made critical calculations for historic spaceflights in the early days of the space program. The award recognizes non-Government individuals for significant specific achievement or substantial improvement in operations, efficiency, service, financial savings, science, or technology, which contributes to the mission of NASA.