NASA headquarters to be renamed for Mary W. Jackson, one of its ‘Hidden Figures’
LA TimesNASA announced Wednesday that its headquarters will be named after one of its history-making engineers. In a news release, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters building will be named after Mary W. Jackson, its first African American female engineer. “It appropriately sits on ‘Hidden Figures Way,’ a reminder that Mary is one of many incredible and talented professionals in NASA’s history who contributed to this agency’s success. In 2019, President Trump signed the Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act, which posthumously honored Jackson, Johnson, Vaughan and Christine Darden, who joined NASA’s pool of “human computers” in 1967. “We are honored that NASA continues to celebrate the legacy of our mother and grandmother Mary W. Jackson,” Carolyn Lewis, Jackson’s daughter, said in a statement on behalf of her family.
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