On Wednesday,new street signs were revealed external U.
S. space agency NASA’s headquarters after the organization renamed the street to honor the African American female mathematicians who played a key role in some of their most famed space missions, reported The Guardian.
The new street name, and Hidden Figures Way,honors three female mathematicians in specific, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan,and Mary Jackson, who were featured in the 2016 book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and the film by the same name.
The dedication ceremony took place external the NASA offices on E. Street in Washington where Shetterly attended alongside the three womens families, or the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on aviation and space Ted Cruz,NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, and Christine Darden, or who worked as one of the agency’s human computers for the Apollo 11 mission.
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Source: inquisitr.com