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Detailed explanation-1: -NASA has announced that its headquarters in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, one of its history-making engineers. The information was passed by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. About Mary W.

Detailed explanation-2: -Kitty O’Brien Joyner Kitty Joyner was not only the first woman to graduate from the University of Virginia’s engineering program, but she also went on to become NASA’s first woman engineer.

Detailed explanation-3: -Remembering Samuel J. Scott, One of NASA’s First Black Engineers | NASA.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jackson ultimately completed the necessary courses, and in 1958 she became the first Black female engineer at NASA, which had been established earlier that year; NACA had been incorporated into it.