Janelle Monáe's NASA photoshoot makes the space age cool again
Actress, singer and all around badass artist Janelle Monáe is have a space moment.
Monáe — who stars as one of the brilliant "human computers" from NASA's earliest days in the new movie Hidden Figures — took a trip down to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, for a photoshoot for Cosmopolitan's February issue.
SEE ALSO: Why 'Hidden Figures' — and its unsung heroes — is the ultimate NASA story
Monáe has released a handful of images from the space-inspired shoot on Instagram and Twitter.
A photo posted by Janelle Monáe (@janellemonae) on Jan 11, 2017 at 1:23pm PST
SHOT inside of NASA (CAPE CANAVERAL) !! THANK YOU @cosmopolitan (FEB ISSUE) #nasa #hiddenfigures🚀 🚀🚀
A photo posted by Janelle Monáe (@janellemonae) on Jan 8, 2017 at 3:11pm PST
Her photographs basically give you a tour of some of the most iconic sites at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
One image shows Monáe sticking to her signature white and black style in the center's rocket garden — an outside area populated by some of NASA's first launchers.
A photo posted by maxabadian (@maxabadian) on Jan 10, 2017 at 5:49pm PST
Another image shows Monáe in front of a mockup of the space shuttle Atlantis' cockpit, part of the exhibit displaying the space shuttle at Kennedy.
A photo posted by Janelle Monáe (@janellemonae) on Jan 12, 2017 at 7:58am PST
In Hidden Figures, Monáe plays Mary Jackson, one of the unsung heroes of NASA's early days, who helped get astronaut John Glenn to orbit for the first time in 1962.
Until now, Jackson's contributions to the U.S. space program were largely unknown to the world at large.
Jackson was a trailblazer who was granted special permission to take University of Virginia classes at a segregated high school in order to earn an engineering degree.
She became NASA's first female African-American engineer in 1958.
