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WASHINGTON -- NASA is renaming a facility after Black woman engineer portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures". NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building ...

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This photo provided by NASA shows mathematician Katherine Johnson in 1966. automation A group of Black female mathematicians, aeronautical engineers and human computers whose groundbreaking work for ...

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 ...

Four Black women who worked as scientists and mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race , known colloquially as “Hidden Figures,” were awarded Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday for their ...

A ceremony Friday paid tribute to NASA's first Black woman engineer. NASA officially named its headquarters in the nation's capital after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first Black woman engineer, with ...

A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “ Hidden Figures” were honored with Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday, the highest award given to citizens by Congress, for ...