National Aeronautics and space administration (NASA) has renamed its main building in Washington in honor of the first African-American engineer Mary Anne Jackson, said the Director of the office Jim Breidenstein.
“Mary Jackson was part of a group of very important women that helped NASA succeed in launching American astronauts into space,” he said Breidenstein.
According to him, the engineer, who died in 2005, worked at NASA from the beginning of 1950-ies. She performed the most complicated calculations for space flight. However, at that time not received public recognition. Only in 2016, Jackson and some of her colleagues were known to the public thanks to the successful Hollywood film “Hidden shapes”.
the news came amid calls for equality after the death of the African-American George Floyd, who died at the hands of police of Minneapolis in late may. His death led to nationwide demonstrations for justice and ending police brutality, writes portal madison.com.
