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Mary Jackson (née Winston; [1] April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters sign and NASA worm insignia. On June 12, 2019, the street in front of the building was given the honorary name of Hidden Figures Way in honor of some of NASA's black women mathematicians, Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary W. Jackson, who were the central characters in the 2016 film Hidden Figures ...
Taraji P. Henson starred as mathematician Katherine Johnson, Octavia Spencer played Dorothy Vaughan, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA in 1949, and Janelle Monáe played Mary Jackson, the first female African-American engineer to work for NASA. [16] The movie made US$231.3 million. The budget of the film was US$25 million.
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 ...
PHOTO: In this Nov. 20, 2023, file photo, the lNASA ogo is shown in front of the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington, D.C. (John M. Chase/Getty Images, FILE)
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Mary Jackson (1921–2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and its successor, NASA. She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking ...
Mary Jackson (engineer) (1921–2005), American mathematician and aerospace engineer at NASA Mary Jackson (artist) (born 1945), American fiber artist from South Carolina Mary Jackson McCrorey (1867–1944), born Mary C. Jackson, American educator and mission worker