[Rebelgecko]

It's a great movie. I read a bit about her afterwards. One cool thing is that some of the parts that I assumed were made up by Hollywood to heighten the drama (like Neil Armstrong say "I'm not launching unless she does the calculations") weren't fabricated. That actually happened

[selimthegrim]

It was John Glenn not Neil Armstrong

[Rebelgecko]

Whoops, it's been a while since I saw the movie

[dnautics]

my understanding is that pretty much the only thing that was fabricated was that these four women were friends.