Washington — A group of Black women central to NASA's success during the space race and known as the "Hidden Figures" were ...

A separate Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal was also ... Only five other recipients have made contributions to space exploration: rocket pioneer Robert Goddard in 1959 and astronauts ...

NASA on Friday is named its Washington headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the space agency's first African American female engineer whose story was portrayed in the popular film "Hidden Figures."… ...

Retired mathematician Katherine Johnson — whose work inspired Hidden Figures — appeared at Sunday's Academy Awards with the film's cast Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human interest at ...

Margot Lee Shetterly, author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book “Hidden Figures,” told an appreciative crowd Wednesday evening that the three Black women she wrote about who worked ...

NASA's news comes amid calls for greater racial equality in the United States. Black History’s Hidden Figures That Inspired Today’s Innovators Five groundbreaking black innovators you should ...