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WASHINGTON -- NASA is renaming a facility after Black woman engineer portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures". NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building ...

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This photo provided by NASA shows mathematician Katherine Johnson in 1966. automation A group of Black female mathematicians, aeronautical engineers and human computers whose groundbreaking work for ...

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Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures (2016) ; NASA space scientist, and mathematician Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1966 in Hampton, Virginia. The behind-the-scenes calculations ...

A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “ Hidden Figures” were honored with Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday, the highest award given to citizens by Congress, for ...

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 Hidden Figures may have been a box office sensation thanks to its leading ...

Four Black women who worked as scientists and mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race , known colloquially as “Hidden Figures,” were awarded Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday for their ...

(NEXSTAR) – House Speaker Mike Johnson hosted an event Wednesday recognizing several women who contributed to the space race. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine ...