Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five Congressional Gold Medals were bestowed to the women who worked as at NASA as mathematicians and engineers during the space ...

NASA executive Jim Bridenstine announced this week that the organization would be naming its headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, one of the women whose historic contributions to NASA were explored in ...

A group of Black women, crucial to NASA's achievements during the space race and famously known as the "Hidden Figures," were honored with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill. These ...

NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. will be named after the first Black female engineer at the agency, Mary W. Jackson. “Mary W. Jackson was part of a group of very important women who helped NASA ...