Advertisement'Hidden Figures' No More: Meet The Black Women Who Helped Send America To SpacePlay06:41Download AudioDecember 16, 2016Elizabeth BlairfacebookEmailAccording 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)