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Video. The women who helped put John Glenn into space - 'Hidden Figures' tells their story

Updated: 19/01/2017 - 10:19 GMT+1

‘Hidden Figures’ tells the story of three brilliant African-American women who worked at NASA and were the brains behind the flight of the first American astronaut John Glenn into…

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