Category: Hidden Figures
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NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson
WASHINGTON ― 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…
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NASA Mourns the Passing of ‘Hidden Figure’ Katherine Johnson
HAMPTON, VA (BDPA Hampton Roads) — NASA announced today one of America’s beloved “Human Computers,” Katherine Johnson, has died at the age of 101. Ms. Johnson was a pioneering Hampton Roads and American icon featured in the movie “Hidden Figures.” “NASA is deeply saddened by the loss of a leader from our pioneering days, and…