WASHINGTON -- NASA is renaming a facility after Black woman engineer portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures". NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building ...

A ceremony Friday paid tribute to NASA's first Black woman engineer. NASA officially named its headquarters in the nation's capital after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first Black woman engineer, with ...

NASA plans to immortalize Mary W. Jackson, one of its trailblazing alums portrayed in the hit film Hidden Figures. On Wednesday, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that the agency's ...

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 ...

During an era when segregation was still prevalent throughout the US, and women were largely excluded from STEM careers, Mary Jackson was a trailblazer. Jackson, who died in 2005, would have turned ...

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NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. will be named after the first Black female engineer at the agency, Mary W. Jackson. “Mary W. Jackson was part of a group of very important women who helped NASA ...

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 ...