Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five Congressional Gold Medals were bestowed to the women who worked as at NASA as mathematicians and engineers during the space ...

NASA executive Jim Bridenstine announced this week that the organization would be naming its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, one of the women whose historic contributions to NASA were explored in ...

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 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 ...

Mary Winston Jackson (1921–2005) successfully overcame the barriers of segregation and gender bias to become a professional aerospace engineer and leader in ensuring equal opportunities for future ...