NASA Renames Street To Honour Three African-American Women Mathematicians
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson provided pivotal contributions to space flight research from the 1940s through to the 1960s, when the United States first sent men to orbit and then walk on the Moon.
They were among dozens of African-Americans who worked for the US space program. (Representational)
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