On Friday, NASA celebrated the agencyâs first African American female engineer, Mary W. Jackson, with a ceremony formally naming the agencyâs headquarters building in Washington in her honor. Jackson began working at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) â the forerunner of NASA â in April 1951. From her initial role as a âhuman computerâ within the segregated…
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