NASA named its Washington DC headquarters after the agency’s first African American female engineer _________.
A.Katherine Johnson
B.Mary.W.Jackson
C.Dorothy Vaughan
D.John Glenn
Answer:B
NASA named its Washington DC headquarters after the agency’s first African American female engineer _________.
A.Katherine Johnson B.Mary.W.Jackson C.Dorothy Vaughan D.John Glenn
Explanation:NASA is renaming its Washington DC headquarters in honor of the first black female engineer to work at the American space agency – the ‘Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building.’ While working at NASA, Jackson was one of three women who prepared astronaut John Glenn’s 1962 orbital mission as the US beat the Soviet Union (USSR) in the space race.