Earlier this week, NASA announced that it is renaming its headquarters building in Washington D.C. after Mary W. Jackson, the space agency’s first black female engineer. “Jackson started her NASA ...

FILE - This photo provided by NASA shows engineer Mary W. Jackson at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., in 1977. (Robert Nye/NASA via AP) (Robert Nye, For ...

Jackson was the first Black female engineer at NASA, beginning work there in 1951 when the agency was still segregated. She worked as a “computer,” performing complex mathematical calculations by hand ...

NASA recently announced that it would be renaming its headquarters in Washington, D.C. after Mary W. Jackson, the trailblazing first Black female engineer at the space agency made famous by the film ...

She was NASA's first Black female engineer. Mary W. Jackson was once a "hidden figure" at NASA, but now her name will grace the agency's office in the nation's capital. NASA announced on Wednesday ...

NASA’s headquarters building in downtown D.C. now has a new name, honoring the late Mary W. Jackson, the first African-American female engineer at the agency. “Jackson’s story is one of incredible ...

NASA is recognizing one of its "hidden figures" by naming its main office after the first African American female engineer to work at the space agency. The Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building ...

NASA will name its headquarters building in Washington, D.C., in honor of its first Black female engineer, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced on Wednesday. Mary W. Jackson, who was featured ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 26: The street sign "Hidden Figures Way" is posted at NASA Headquarters in honor of African American women mathematicians who worked at NASA on June 26, 2020 in Washington, DC.