# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-08-26T22:16:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

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It’s Women’s Equality Day! ⁣
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Mary Jackson began her career at the NACA (NASA’s predecessor) Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory’s segregated West Area Computing section in 1951. After two years in West Computing, Jackson was offered a computing position to work in the 4-foot by 4-foot Supersonic Pressure Tunnel. She was also encouraged to enter a training program that would put her on track to become an engineer — however, she needed special permission from the City of Hampton to take classes in math and physics at then-segregated Hampton High School.⁣
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She completed the courses, earned the promotion, and in 1958 became NASA’s first Black female engineer. That same year, she co-authored her first report, “Effects of Nose Angle and Mach Number on Transition on Cones at Supersonic Speeds.” By 1975, she had authored or co-authored 12 NACA and NASA technical publications — most focused on the behavior of the boundary layer of air around an airplane.⁣
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Jackson eventually became frustrated with the lack of management opportunities for women in her field. In 1979, she left engineering to become NASA Langley’s Federal Women’s Program Manager to increase the hiring and promotion of NASA’s female mathematicians, engineers, and scientists. Jackson retired from NASALangley in 1985.⁣
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Credit: NASA Langley Research Center⁣
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#WomensEqualityDay #HiddenFigures #ModernFigures #NASAHistory #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Aeronautics #Engineer #STEM #WomenInSTEM

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