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Production photographs by Hopper Stone © Twentieth Century Fox by Wynn Thomas, Production Designer The 1960s' NASA campus in Langley, Virginia, was a series of bland red brick, cinder block buildings. It was not much to look at. The campus was about function, not design. One of the challenges in designing the movie was how to make this look interesting. There is also an upstairs/downstairs aspect to the story; one of the challenges was how to show that upstairs (the scientists) and downstairs (the workers—human computers) aspect in visual terms. I also wanted to show the heroic aspects of NASA, to mythologize NASA. Therefore, for the upstairs world, I decided to make things larger than life: large rooms, simple but bold shapes, high