House Speaker Mike Johnson is hosting a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Wednesday honoring the pioneering women of NASA that contributed to the space race.
This 1977 photo made available by NASA shows engineer Mary W. Jackson at NASA 's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. On Wednesday, June 24, 2020, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Jackson, the first African American female engineer at the space agency.
FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2016, file photo, provided by NASA, Katherine G. Johnson is honored at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, Va.
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