WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) — NASA’s headquarters is getting a new name, and it honors the agency’s first Black female engineer Mary Jackson. Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk led the naming ...

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 ...

The Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building appropriately sits on a street renamed Hidden Figures Way in 2019 – when a portion of E Street SW in front of NASA Headquarters received the new name.

During an era when segregation was still prevalent throughout the US, and women were largely excluded from STEM careers, Mary Jackson was a trailblazer. Jackson, who died in 2005, would have turned ...

(ABC NEWS) - Mary W. Jackson was once a "hidden figure" at NASA, but now her name will grace the agency's office in the nation's capital. NASA announced on Wednesday that its Washington, D.C., ...

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 Hidden Figures may have been a box office sensation thanks to its leading ...

NASA executive Jim Bridenstine announced this week that the organization would be naming its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, one of the women whose historic contributions to NASA were explored in ...