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Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson were brilliant women who used their mathematical abilities to help send rockets (manned and unmanned) into space. Want to know more about them? Don’t watch the film, Hidden Figures. Though Hidden Figures is an entertaining movie, it does what most bio-pics (biographical movies) do: warps time and truth […]
He was not one of ours â if by âoursâ you mean an American but the further we go out in space, the less earthly distinctions like nationality will matter.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian â a Soviet in the parlance of the time â and 60 years ago today he became the first human being in space.
That is an achievement we should salute no matter what country he hailed from or what political system he gave his allegiance to.
We Americans have grown up idolizing our own heroes, as we should.
Tom Wolfe, a Richmonder who graduated from Washington and Lee University, gave us âThe Right Stuff,â and then Hollywood gave us a movie.
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NASA officially named its Washington, D.C., headquarters building after pioneering engineer Mary Winston Jackson during a ceremony on Friday.
Members of Jackson s family and other prominent guests attended the small ceremony, including NASA Langley Center Director Clayton Turner, retired NASA engineer and Hidden Figure Christine Darden, artist Tenbeete Solomon, and Jackson s grandchildren Wanda and Bryan Jackson.
In addition to unveiling a building sign with Jackson s name, the agency screened video tributes with reflections on her career at NASA, featuring family, friends, colleagues, astronauts, celebrities, elected officials and Hampton University President William R. Harvey.