insert_link Girl Power NASA to Honor ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk will lead a ceremony at 1 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 26, officially naming the NASA Headquarters building in Washington in honor of Mary W. Jackson. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website and will livestream on the agency's Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, as well as the NASA app. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA, began her career […] todayFebruary 25, 2021
insert_link Girl Power NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. Jackson started her NASA career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace engineer, went on to lead programs influencing the hiring and promotion of women in NASA's science, […] todayJune 25, 2020
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