In keeping the legacy of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson alive, we rounded up some things that you need to know about the trailblazers and the work that quite literally ...

NASA’s headquarters building in downtown D.C. now has a new name, honoring the late Mary W. Jackson, the first African ... the U.S. into space. “Her work with other human computers, many ...

“In addition to being a talented engineer and doing groundbreaking work and writing a lot of papers, she was a pioneer very early in her career.” Mary Jackson is shown here working at NAS ...

Such details encourage the viewer to study the work slowly, the way you might scrutinise a particular patch of a Jackson Pollock painting. The piece was made by Mary Jackson, an African-American ...

Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan and Christine ... all of those astronauts actually stood” and said their work proved that America’s strength “lies in our ability to harness ...