NASA announced Wednesday that it is naming its headquarters in Washington, D.C. after mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary W. Jackson. Jackson became the agency's first American American female ...

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 ...

NASA recently announced that it would be renaming its headquarters in Washington, D.C. after Mary W. Jackson, the trailblazing first Black female engineer at the space agency made famous by the film ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA is naming its Washington, D.C. headquarters after Mary Jackson, the space agency’s first African American female engineer whose story was portrayed in the popular film “Hidden ...

Jackson was the first Black female engineer at NASA, beginning work there in 1951 when the agency was still segregated. She worked as a “computer,” performing complex mathematical calculations by hand ...

Earlier this week, NASA announced that it is renaming its headquarters building in Washington D.C. after Mary W. Jackson, the space agency’s first black female engineer. “Jackson started her NASA ...

NASA announced Wednesday that it is naming the agency’s headquarters building in Washington D.C., after it’s first African American female engineer: Mary W. Jackson. Our headquarters building in ...

Mary Jackson was the first African American woman engineer at NASA. She worked at the agency from 1951 to 1985. Courtesy of NASA NASA announced on Wednesday that it has renamed its D.C. headquarters ...

James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. NASA has announced it will name its headquarters in Washington DC after the agency’s first Black ...

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 ...

NASA will name its Washington, D.C., headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the first black woman engineer at the agency, NASA announced Wednesday, as leaders across the country reexamine which ...

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 ...