The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The NASA administration on Friday officially renamed its headquarters in Washington, D.C. to honor its first Black female engineer, Mary Jackson. In a ceremony Friday, NASA unveiled the ...

A ceremony Friday paid tribute to NASA's first Black woman engineer. NASA officially named its headquarters in the nation's capital after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first Black woman engineer, with ...

NASA's "Hidden Figures" women will be honored with Congressional Gold Medals on Sept. 18. Katherine Johnson, Dr. Christine Darden, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson are receiving awards for their ...

(CNN) -- NASA is renaming its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first African American female engineer who helped inspire the story behind the book and film "Hidden Figures." "Mary W.

The honored women were pioneers in their field and played crucial roles during the heated space race against the Soviet Union. A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians who were ...

NASA is renaming its headquarters in honor of Mary W. Jackson, who became the space agency's first Black, female engineer in 1958. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the building in Washington, D ...