NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson

  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 aerospace … Continue reading NASA Names Headquarters After ‘Hidden Figure’ Mary W. Jackson