The excerpt from Hidden Figures is told in past tense, from a third person point of view.
In this view, the narrator appears to exist outside the story and addresses the character by his name or as he/she/they and him/her/them.
In the story, it is seen that it is narrated in the past tense and also made use of the third person point of view as the names of the characters were known and called.
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