Mary Jackson (née Winston; April 9, 1921, February 11, 2005) was an American aerospace engineer and mathematician 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.
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Defining ContributionNASA's first Black female engineer (1958); analyzed wind tunnel and flight-test data at Langley's Subsonic-Transonic Aerodynamics Division. 1 Connections
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Colleagues at NACA/NASA Langley; their careers, with Katherine Johnson's, were told together in Hidden Figures.
Colleagues at NACA/NASA Langley; their careers, with Dorothy Vaughan's, were told together in Hidden Figures.
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Mary Jackson (née Winston; April 9, 1921, February 11, 2005) was an American aerospace engineer and mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer.
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Mary Jackson (née Winston; April 9, 1921, February 11, 2005) was an American aerospace engineer and mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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She analyzed data from wind tunnel experiments and real-world aircraft flight experiments at the Theoretical Aerodynamics Branch of the Subsonic-Transonic Aerodynamics Division at Langley.
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