WASHINGTON - NASA announced on Wednesday that it would name its Washington, DC, headquarters after Mary Jackson, the organisation's first Black female engineer and a pivotal player in helping US astronauts reach space.
Carolyn Lewis, Jackson's daughter, said she felt honoured to see NASA continue to celebrate her mother's legacy. In 1951, she began working at NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, in the then-segregated West Area Computing Unit of what is now the Langley Research Center.
Her contributions, along with the work of NASA mathematicians Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, were highlighted in the 2016 film"Hidden Figures", inspired by a book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. The film, in which Jackson was portrayed by Janelle Monáe, was nominated for three Oscars.
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