Sadly many of the situations depicted in the movie were entirely fictional. There were plenty of critical moments and plenty of drama. Ironically, for all of t

Sadly many of the situations depicted in the movie were entirely fictional. There were plenty of critical moments and plenty of drama. Ironically, for all of the manufactured scenes about discrimination and rejiggering of timelines by decades in the movie, John Glenn apparently did ask for Johnson to check some calculations ... he just didn't do it during final launch prep. The wikipedia page on the topic has a great list of "things that didn't happen that way" in the movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures#Historical_accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures#Historical_accu...