Join this year’s Mary Jackson Named Lecture, held in honour of Mary Jackson, NASA’s first Black female aerospace engineer. The lecture is jointly hosted by the RAeS Equity, Diversity & Inclusion ...

FILE - This photo provided by NASA shows engineer Mary W. Jackson at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., in 1977. (Robert Nye/NASA via AP) (Robert Nye, For ...

Mary W. Jackson was NASA’s first Black female engineer, advancing aerospace research into high-speed flight, and paving the way for women and minorities in science and engineering. In 1958 Mary ...

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 ...