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 ...

Mary Jackson - NASA’s first Black female engineer - paved the way for women and minorities in science and engineering ...

WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) — NASA’s headquarters is getting a new name, and it honors the agency’s first Black female engineer Mary Jackson. Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk led the naming ...

NASA's Washington, D.C., headquarters will soon bear the name of Mary Jackson, the agency's first African American female engineer and a driving force behind getting U.S. astronauts into space. NASA ...

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 ...

NASA is renaming its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first African American female engineer who helped inspire the story behind the book and film "Hidden Figures." "Mary W. Jackson ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The NASA administration on Friday officially renamed its headquarters in Washington, D.C. to honor its first Black female engineer, Mary Jackson. In a ceremony Friday, NASA unveiled the ...