Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Engineer Mary W. Jackson at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, in 1977. NASA via AP/ Robert Nye photo
Isabel Van Brugen
The Epoch Times
NASA announced Wednesday, June 24, that it will name its Washington headquarters building after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at the agency.
According to a news release Wednesday, Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace engineer, began her career at NASA in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.
Virginia-born Jackson continued to head programs influencing the hiring and promotion of women in NASA's science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers, according the...
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