I enjoyed very much watching Hidden Figures, a film directed by Theodore Melfi, based in the book by Margot Lee Shetterly.  It brings us back to the unique and incredible untold story of Katherine Jonson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae).  These three African-American women, engineers and mathematicians, worked at the newly created space agency NASA (between 1958-1963) at a time when the first human spaceflight program in the US was initiated.  It is a unique story of how these remarkable women contributed to the space program despite segregation barriers at a time when women in science were not even though off.  These three women scientists all contribute behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn, who made three orbits around earth in 1962, a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race against the Soviet Union. This historic film is definitively worth seeing because it inspires us even today (56 yrs later) as sadly we still struggle with lack of diversity, inclusion and equity in many aspects of society including in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) careers. The story of these three visionary African American women scientists who moved gender and racial barriers against all odds can definitively inspire our generation to think big and be proactive and inclusive as we need more minorities to be part of the STEM workforce to solve the challenges that we face in the 21^st century.