A dream I share with many of my peers is to become an astronaut. So, I naturally gravitated towards wanting to watch “Hidden Figures.” The movie provided its viewers and immersive experience of the space race between the two superpowers of the time, The United States & The Soviet Union. I truly felt like I was with Alan Shepard and John Glenn during their space missions, with the NASA engineers during testing of the capsules, the use of the first computers produced by IBM, and many other human achievements in the fields of space travel and technology. However, in the middle of all of this, there were acts of ignorance such as segregation and sexism. The three main characters of “Hidden Figures” and their stories portray what it was like to be an African-American female working in NASA.  Mathemetician and human-computer Katherine Goble was responsible for a range of tasks. From checking for mathematical errors in her colleague’s calculation to using Euler’s Method to model the trajectories of spaceships. Yet, she was not allowed to go to the bathroom next to her work and instead has to walk a great distance to another building where the bathrooms were not segregated.  Also, her colleagues bullied her and were disgusted by her. Mary Jackson was a human computer who truly wanted to become an engineer. However, she was not allowed to become an engineer because of her gender and race. In fact, she had to go to court in order to be allowed into a high school night class she needed to become an engineer. And their unofficial acting-supervisor Dorothy Vaughan was not given the full position of supervisor despite the great need for its position. Yet, she persevered and ended up being more than a supervisor by the end of the movie. She taught herself computer science and completed the set up of the first IBM computers single-handedly. A great lesson from this movie as a minority is that I can achieve anything I want as long as I persevere.