Support WBUR'Hidden Figures' No More: Meet The Black Women Who Helped Send America To SpacePlay06:41Download AudioElizabeth BlairDecember 16, 2016 ShareAccording to NASA, Mary Jackson "may have been the only black female aeronautical engineer in the field" in the 1950s. Singer and actress Janelle Monáe plays her in the film Hidden Figures. (Courtesy of NASA Langley)
