Mary Winston Jackson, NASA Engineer

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Jackson is most well known as the first black woman to become an engineer at NASA. But she also worked to clear the way for other underrepresented people at NASA, in particular black women.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseofWorks.com.
0:36.1	Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.4	Folks who have seen the movie Hidden Figures or Red Margot Lee Shetterly's book by the same title
0:53.2	will probably recognize the name Mary Jackson.
0:55.8	And she was the first black woman to become an engineer at NASA.
0:59.5	And she's been on my list for an episode for a while.
1:02.4	We have a collection about women in STEM fields, but we haven't talked specifically about
1:08.0	a woman engineer.
1:10.1	And she really hasn't gotten as much recognition as some of the other women who are featured
1:14.2	in Hidden Figures, such as Catherine Johnson, who calculated the trajectory for the United
1:19.0	States' first human space flight and celebrated her 100th birthday in August of 2018.
1:25.1	But I didn't realize until I got into this episode just how much Mary Jackson also works
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