Hidden Figures Way: Nasa renames street to honor black female mathematicians
Hidden Figures Way: Nasa renames street to honor black female mathematicians
Headquarters street renamed for pioneering African American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson
David Smith in Washington
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Wed 12 Jun 2019 14.02 EDT
Nasa, the US space agency, has renamed the street in front of its headquarters Hidden Figures Way, honouring the black female mathematicians who defied racial segregation to play a crucial part in its most celebrated missions.
The designation honours African American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, featured in the 2016 book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and the subsequent film directed by Theodore Melfi.
Shetterly joined members of each woman’s family on Wednesday along with Ted Cruz, chairman of the Senate subcommittee on aviation and space, Jim Bridenstine, the Nasa administrator and Christine Darden, one of Nasa’s human “computers” during the Apollo era. New street signs were unveiled outside the Nasa offices on E Street in Washington.
Nasa is preparing to celebrate next month’s 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and first moon landing. All 12 people who walked on the moon were white American men.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/12/nasa-hidden-figures-street-renamed-black-female-mathematicians
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Name the street after the women. Or better yet, name 3 streets after 3 women.
Then I'll believe it.
