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

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Born on the same birth day (9 April): Bernard Ackah • Henrik Rysensteen • J. William Fulbright • Kousei Amano • Mark Pellegrino • Martin Margiela • Nadey Hakim • Nigel Shadbolt • Søren Christian Sommerfelt • Terry Knight • Tito Gómez (Puerto Rican singer) • Yamina Benguigui

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