Have you ever heard that humans calculated everything about the launch of spacecraft by hand? “Hidden Figures” is a movie about three African-American women scientists who contributed to the victory in the space race by successfully completing the “Mercury Project”.This movie topped the box office for two consecutive weeks despite its modest budget of 25 million dollars. The reason why the movie was successful is that it tells the story of individual who overcame discrimination. People who calculated the universe in the face of discrimination. America in 1960 was extremely hard to live in for black people. In the south, Laws enforcing institutional racial discrimination (Jim Crow laws) were still in place. So, black people had to use different schools, restaurants, even different toilets than white people. In the north, although it was not enforced by law, informal segregation still existed, and the police often suppressed Black People harshly, and violently. In a society like this, there were people who changed history in a small room. Who are the “Hidden Figures?" In 1957, starting with the first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union, Sputnik, a space war between America and the Soviet Union began. Threatened by the SovietUSSR, America started envision the Apollo Program. There was an urgent need for people who could perform precise and large-scale mathematical calculations. As a result, NASA hired human computers to handle orbital calculations and launch simulations. This movie focuses on the story of Black women who worked as some of these human computers. The , so-called, “Hidden Figures”, the African-American women who worked as computers to play a crucial role in mathematical tasks. These tasks included, calculating flight trajectories, simulating rocket launches, and modeling satellite orbits. But, their office was divided from white people. On top of that, they had to walk for dozens of minutes to go to the toilet because toilets were also divided. Nevertheless, let us take a closer look at the women who designed space and inscribed their own graphs across the universe. Dorothy Vaughan(1910-2008): The Woman who changed the course of science. Dorothy Vaughan was a mathematician and scientist born in the state of Missouri. She was hired at NASA In 1943, during World War 2, started working in the west area computing group. Also as was typical of the time, she worked in an era that was one in which institutionalized racial discrimination was legally permitted . Despite this, Dorothy Vaughan became a team leader because she had great leadership and mathematical capability. She became a scientist despite facing discrimination, but has proved her ability. Now, she has a reputation as an innovator and a, accelerated NASA’s technological advancement. Katherine Johnson(1918-2020): The woman who calculated orbital mechanics by hand. Katherine Johnson was a mathematician born in West Virginia, one of the most renowned African-American scientists to have worked at NASA. Over several decades, she contributed to the U.S. space exploration program, playing a key role in the success of manned space flights through her precise mathematical calculations. She led numerous projects including Mercury-Atlas 6 and ,-Apollo 11. In 2015, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama. Katherine Johnson’s career is regarded as a symbolic model for the ongoing realization of diversity and inclusion in the scientific community. Through these figures and the film, we can find that "Hidden Figures" is not only remarking the past, but also it’s a mirror that reflects today’s society. This film sheds light on the hidden contributions of those who had long gone unrecognized, prompting us to reflect on whose hands truly shaped the progress of science and society. Their story is a powerful record of courage-of people who paved their own path with ability and conviction, and even in the face of the towering wall of severe discrimination.