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Black contributions to space exploration have been essential to the success of the field, from the "Hidden Figures" of the 1960s to modern astronauts and scientists, and even the ancient African ...
More Black women have been to space than led Fortune 500 firms. This article explores why—and what it reveals about leadership equity in corporate America.
Hidden Figures is an inspiring film which brings to the fore the contributions of African-American women mathematicians at NASA in the 1960s ...
Three African American women who were portrayed in the 2016 film, "Hidden Figures," will receive Congressional Gold Medals. President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 1396, the “Hidden Figures ...
NASA has renamed the street outside its Washington headquarters to honor three black female mathematicians whose pioneering work on the agency's early space program was chronicled in the film ...
In 2021, NASA released a fictional graphic novel about a pioneering astronaut who becomes the first woman to step foot on the moon, Commander Callie Rodriguez, alongside her diverse crew — this ...
Of NASA's 47 active astronauts, 20 are women. Of the seven astronauts currently living at the space station, McClain and Ayers, an Air Force major and former fighter pilot, are the only women.
Image courtesy of NASA. In 2025, the Human Computer Project will once again partner with the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
NASA has deleted two comic books about women astronauts from all its websites, NASA Watch reports, in what appears to be the latest victim of the Trump's administration's purge of "DEI" content ...
'I am actually angry at this forced diversity': NASA shutters contest as trolls disparage black female team, hack voting By Danny Clemens, KFSN Sunday, May 6, 2018 ...
In 2021, NASA released a fictional graphic novel about a pioneering astronaut who becomes the first woman to step foot on the moon, Commander Callie Rodriguez, alongside her diverse crew — this ...