NASA Names DC Headquarters After Its First Black Female Engineer, Mary Jackson

NASA announced on June 24 that it will name its D.C. headquarters building after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at the agency.

NASA headquarters building in Washington D.C. in a file photo. Courtesy of NASA

NASA announced on June 24 that it will name its Washington headquarters building after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at the agency.

According to a news release published June 24, Jackson, a mathematician and aerospace engineer, began her career at NASA in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.