Communications between the ground and the Mercury capsules were not static-free. NASA didn't have flat-panel screens back then.
No, it's not a painstakingly accurate picture.
This movie, 'Hidden Figures,' brings all of these worlds back to me. I never rode on segregated public buses, but they were there and I knew it. I never saw separate restrooms and drinking fountains for 'colored' but they were there. I was heavily involved in the space race at an early age and watched every launch and recovery on black-and-white TV. I designed computers, I grew up in the south during the 1950s and 1960s.
