Mary Jackson was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the NASA, she took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958, became NASA's first black female engineer. In 2019, Jackson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. In 2021, the Washington, D.C. headquarters of NASA was renamed the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters. Katherine Jonhson was an mathematician as a NASA employee were critical to success of the first and subsequent US. Crewed spaceflights. Johnson's work included calculating trajectories, launch windows for astronauts like, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, John Glenn, the first American in orbit. She was known as a "human computer". Dorothy Vaughan was na mathematician and human computer who worked for NASA, she was the first African- American woman to receive a promotion and supervise a group of staff. In 2019, Vaughan was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously. This three woman served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history.
Summary and Analysis of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race: Based on the Book by Margot Lee Shetterly