NASA has announced its headquarters will be renamed in honor of Mary W. Jackson, the first Black woman to work there as an engineer.
NASA announced Wednesday that its headquarters will be named after one of its history-making engineers.
“Mary W. Jackson was part of a group of very important women who helped NASA succeed in getting American astronauts into space. Mary never accepted the status quo, she helped break barriers and open opportunities for African Americans and women in the field of engineering and technology,” Bridenstine said in a statement.
She worked along with two other history-making Black mathematicians, Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, during the space race. The women’s stories were told in Margot Lee Shetterly’s 2016 nonfiction book “Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race.” That same year it was adapted into a motion picture, “Hidden Figures,” which was nominated for three Academy Awards. Jackson was portrayed by Janelle Monáe in the film.
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