NASA To Rename Headquarters After Its 1st Black Female Engineer Mary W. Jackson

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NASA To Rename Headquarters After Its 1st Black Female Engineer Mary W. Jackson

NASA announced Wednesday it will rename its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the agency's first African-American female engineer. Her contributions were highlighted in the 2016 film Hidden Figures.

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