Mary Jackson (engineer)

Mary Jackson was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer.

9 April 1921

Born on the same birth date (9 April 1921): Frankie Thomas • Jean-Marie Balestre • Yitzhak Navon

Born on the same birth day (9 April): Alexandra Hunt • Arthur Shaw (footballer, born 1924) • Bill Birch • Domagoj Bošnjak • Iain Duncan Smith • Johann Crüger • Megan Connolly (actress) • Peter Canavan • Philippe Néricault Destouches • Ryan Kelly (basketball) • Sol Hurok • Tony Cragg

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