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It's no secret that women can do just as much as men—especially in pursuits like science, art, governance, politics, and academic endeavors. And it's

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From the first female engineer being hired in 1939 all the way to the first-ever all-female spacewalk in 2019, women have been integral to advancing NASA.

Gino Blefari shares his thoughts on the trailblazing leader Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA.

March 5, 2021 Before the age of electronic computers, humans who did complex mathematical calculations by hand were called computers. The movie “Hidden Figures,” based on a book of the same name, tells the story of three Black women who worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as human computers: Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. They and their Black colleagues in the segregated West Area Computing Unit played an instrumental role in sending John Glenn to space in 1962 and getting him back to earth safely, but many of their NASA colleagues remain hid...