A group of Black female mathematicians, aeronautical engineers and human computers whose groundbreaking work for NASA during the 20th century space race contributed to the nation's historic ...

West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an estimated 4 billion people.

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WASHINGTON -- NASA is renaming a facility after Black woman engineer portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures". NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency's headquarters building ...

NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. will be named after the first Black female engineer at the agency, Mary W. Jackson. “Mary W. Jackson was part of a group of very important women who helped NASA ...

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

Instantly after he became the first U.S. man to successfully orbit earth on behalf of the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), astronaut John Glenn ascended to the status ...

Most people know NASA’s inspirational stories. The first man on the moon, the space race and every other out-of-this-world accomplishment. However, what many do not realize is that some of the ...

This week on “The Backstage Experience,” we go behind the scenes of Hidden Figures, with Pharrell breaking down his role as ...