As authorized by Congress, the medals were bestowed to Christine Darden and ... building in Washington. Darden, who today is 82, became an engineer at NASA 16 years after Jackson, wrote over ...

often having to submit their work anonymously,” Lucas said of women mathematicians and engineers at NASA during the space ...

Working with George and Seebass's theory for sonic boom minimization, further enhanced by work by NASA aerospace engineer Christine Darden, the Skunk Works, with SAI funding, has designed a plane ...

This article highlights several inspiring men and women working across academia and industry who are breaking barriers and ...

Related NOAA: Antarctic ozone hole has shrunk, full recovery predicted NASA identifies 9 possible ... Mary Jackson and Christine Darden, who also faced racism and sexism in their work, received ...

African American women who made up NASA’s “computer pool” in the earliest days of the space race against the Soviet Union -- initially working in segregated conditions -- were honored with ...

The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine ... Jackson was NASA’s first Black female engineer. Darden is best ...

As NASA looks toward long-term lunar missions, a few problems have arisen -- specifically, how to create less trash in space and what to do with the trash that people create. That's why the US ...

This short trivia quiz tests your knowledge of fiction and nonfiction works that were made into popular films about space exploration and the quest to connect with other worlds.