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Mary W Jackson by Tracie Ching

April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005)

Mary Jackson was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started out in the computing unit at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. She took advanced engineering classes and, in 1958, became NASA’s first black female engineer.

After 34 years at NASA, Jackson had earned the most senior engineering title available. She realized she could not earn further promotions without becoming a supervisor. She accepted a demotion to become a manager of both the Federal Women’s Program, in the NASA Office of Equal Opportunity Programs and of the Affirmative Action Program. In this role, she worked to influence the hiring and promotion of women in NASA’s science, engineering, and mathematics careers.

Jackson’s story features in the 2016 non-fiction book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race. She is one of the three protagonists in Hidden Figures, the film adaptation released the same year.

In 2019, Jackson was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.[2] In 2021, the Washington, D.C. headquarters of NASA was renamed the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters.

“For Mary Jackson, life was a long process of raising one’s expectations.” - Author: Margot Lee Shetterly

you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.

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One of my favorite artists liked and reblogged my redraw of their character...

I HAVE ACCENDED 

I like Greek mythology, but this made me absolutely love it

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its kinda scary how your whole life depends on how well you do as a teenager 

Without explanation or context, display your favorite screenshot of the ROTTMNT show. I’ll start.

I heard Leo cut a watermelon with a sword once,,, That Leonardo was shredded.

 Finished it! Man, Rise’s animation totally convinced me that animation can be fun again,,! 😭😭