Actress,Love Radio Porn Movie 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.


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