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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/gutenberg_org/statuses/113984973202310715">Project Gutenberg (gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 00:52:18 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org" title="gutenberg_org@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/132842-48-20230813103534.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Project Gutenberg" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Project Gutenberg</a></section><article><p>American mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson died <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OTD" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 2005.</p><p>She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer engineer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)</a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womeninStem" rel="tag">#womeninStem</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4546987#notice-8901997">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-02-12T00:52:18+09:00" title="Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 00:52:18 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/113984973202310715" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/113984973202310715">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/4118937">Mary Jackson working at NASA Langley at a control panel in 1980.Mary W. Jackson successfully overcame the barriers of segregation and gender bias to become NASA’s first black female engineer in 1958 and a leader in ensuring equal opportunities for future generations.</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/984/937/640/108/744/original/cab31b313d6765a6.jpg" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/984/937/640/108/744/original/cab31b313d6765a6.jpg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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American mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson died #OTD in 2005.
She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career. She started as a computer engineer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer.
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