Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about black female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race.
 The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and other missions.
 The film also features Octavia Spencer as NASA supervisor Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monáe as NASA engineer Mary Jackson, with Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, and Mahershala Ali in supporting roles.
October Sky is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Joe Johnston, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern.
 It is based on the true story of Homer H. Hickam, Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of "Sputnik 1" in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually became a NASA engineer.
NASA's Christopher C. Kraft Jr.
 Mission Control Center (MCC-H, initially called Integrated Mission Control Center, or IMCC), also known by its radio callsign, Houston, is the facility at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas that manages flight control for America's human space program, currently involving astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
 The center is named after Christopher C. Kraft Jr., a retired NASA engineer and manager who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control operation, and was the first Flight Director.
 Prime contractor for systems integration at Houston was Philco Corp., selected by NASA in January 1963.
Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor who has appeared in over 35 motion pictures (including some yet to be released), three television programs, one commercial, and four music videos.
 He made his film debut in 1991 with a minor role in the comedy-drama "City Slickers".
 In 1993, he appeared in "A Dangerous Woman", a motion picture adaptation directed by Gyllenhaal's father Stephen Gyllenhaal and co-written by his mother Naomi Foner that was based on the novel of the same name by Mary McGarry Morris.
 In the following year, he portrayed Robin Williams' son in an episode of the police procedural television series ""; the episode was directed by his father.
 In 1999, Gyllenhaal starred in the Joe Johnston-directed drama "October Sky"; the film was received warmly by critics, and Gyllenhaal's portrayal of the NASA engineer Homer Hickam was praised.
A McKendree cylinder is a type of hypothetical rotating space habitat originally proposed at NASA's Turning Goals into Reality conference in 2000 by NASA engineer Tom McKendree.
 As with other space habitat designs, the cylinder would spin to produce artificial gravity by way of centrifugal force.
 The design differs from the classical designs produced in the 1970s by Gerard K. O'Neill and NASA in that it would use carbon nanotubes instead of steel, allowing the habitat to be built much larger.
 In the original proposal, the habitat would consist of two cylinders approximately 460 km (290 mi) in radius and 4600 km (2900 mi) in length, containing 13 million square kilometers (5.1 million square miles) of living space, nearly as much land area as that of Russia.
Donald R. Puddy (May 31, 1937 – November 22, 2004) was a NASA engineer and manager.
 He joined NASA in 1964, eventually becoming the agency's tenth flight director.
His Flight Team colors were Crimson.
 He served as a flight director during the Apollo 17, Skylab, and Apollo-Soyuz Test Project missions, Skylab, and the first Space Shuttle mission.
 He earned a number of awards for his service, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal.
Christopher Columbus "Chris" Kraft Jr. (born February 28, 1924) is an American aerospace engineer and retired NASA engineer and manager who was instrumental in establishing the agency's Mission Control operation.
 Following his graduation from Virginia Tech in 1944, Kraft was hired by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the predecessor organization to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
 He worked for over a decade in aeronautical research before being asked in 1958 to join the Space Task Group, a small team entrusted with the responsibility of putting America's first man in space.
 Assigned to the flight operations division, Kraft became NASA's first flight director.
 He was on duty during such historic missions as America's first manned spaceflight, first manned orbital flight, and first spacewalk.
Jay H. Greene is a retired NASA engineer.
 Between 2000 and 2004, he served as Chief Engineer at Johnson Space Center, where his role consisted primarily of advising the Center Director.
 He worked as a FIDO flight controller during the Apollo Program and a flight director from 1982 to 1986, most notably as ascent flight director during the Challenger accident in 1986.
 Greene worked for four years as a manager on the International Space Station project and received several awards for his work including the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.
 After his retirement in 2004 he served as a part-time consultant on the Exploration Systems Architecture Study.
 NASA Associate Administrator Rex Geveden described him as "a famous technical curmudgeon in the Agency."
Glynn Stephen Lunney (born November 27, 1936) is a retired NASA engineer.
 An employee of NASA since its creation in 1958, Lunney was a flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and was on duty during historic events such as the Apollo 11 lunar ascent and the pivotal hours of the Apollo 13 crisis.
 At the end of the Apollo program, he became manager of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first collaboration in spaceflight between the United States and the Soviet Union.
 Later, he served as manager of the Space Shuttle program before leaving NASA in 1985 and later becoming a vice president of the United Space Alliance.
Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer.
 His memoir "Rocket Boys" was a "New York Times" Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film "October Sky".
 Hickam has also written a number of best-selling memoirs and novels including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels.
 His books have been translated into many languages.

Question: Which 1999 movie, directed by Joe Johnston, is based onthe memoirs of a veitnam veteran and formaer NASA engineer?
Answer: October Sky