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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)

#science #womeninStem