HAMPTON, VA - JANUARY 7: Mathmatician Mary Jackson, the first black woman engineer at NASA poses for a photo at work at NASA Langley Research Center on January 7, 1980 in Hampton, Virginia. (Photo by Bob Nye/NASA/Donaldson Collection/Getty Images)
HAMPTON, VA - JANUARY 7: Mathmatician Mary Jackson, the first black woman engineer at NASA poses for a photo at work at NASA Langley Research Center on January 7, 1980 in Hampton, Virginia. (Photo by Bob Nye/NASA/Donaldson Collection/Getty Images)