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As NASA prepares to send the first person of color to the moon, it serves as a stark reminder of the space agency’s long road toward embracing diversity and inclusion.

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson were brilliant women who used their mathematical abilities to help send rockets (manned and unmanned) into space. Want to know more about them? Don’t watch the film, Hidden Figures. Though Hidden Figures is an entertaining movie, it does what most bio-pics (biographical movies) do: warps time and truth […]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration paid tribute to the Black astronauts, mathematicians and engineers who contributed to the agency's progress in space exploration.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration paid tribute to the Black astronauts, mathematicians and engineers who contributed to the agency's progress in space exploration.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration paid tribute to the Black astronauts, mathematicians and engineers who contributed to the agency's progress in space exploration.

Lanier Middle School will now be called Katherine Johnson Middle School.

The real story behind Hidden Figures: NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson - whose career inspired the award-winning movie - lays bare her struggles with racism and sexism in eye-opening posthumous memoir Johnsons posthumous memoir, My Remarkable Journey, was co-written by Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore, two of her three daughters In the book, she recounted how she went from a child prodigy in West Virginia to a NASA employee, detailing the struggles and fears she faced as a black woman �...

Nasa’s DC headquarters renamed after ‘Hidden Figures’ engineer Mary Jackson Clémence Michallon © Provided by The Independent Nasa is renaming its DC headquarters to honour Mary Jackson, the administration’s first Black female engineers who was one of the inspirations behind the film The headquarters naming ceremony will take place this Friday (26 February) at 1pm ET. It will be live-streamed on YouTube, as well as on the agency’s Twitter and Facebook accounts and o...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. NASA officially named its Washington, D.C., headquarters building after pioneering engineer Mary Winston Jackson during a ceremony on Friday. Members of Jacksons family and other prominent guests attended the small ceremony, including NASA Langley Center Director Clayton Turner, retired NASA engineer and "Hidden Figure" Christine Darden, artist Tenbeete Solomon, and Jacksons grandchildren Wanda and Bryan Jac...

Pictures from space! Our image of the day Space 16/02/2021 Space.com Staff © Provided by Space Valentine Island in northern Western Australia is a swirling mix of blues and reddish browns, as seen from space by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. The mission, which is made up of two satellites, imaged the tiny island for Valentines Day. Valentine Island is just about 1 mile (1.60 kilometers) long and 0.15 miles (250 meters) wide and can be found in the King Sound, a large gu...