Mary Winston Jackson (born April 9, 1921 - February 11, 2015) was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics (NACA), which was succeeded by NASA in 1958. She is most notably known for her work alongside Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughn on Project Mercury during the world wide Space Race, which was chronicled in the 2016 film Hidden Figures.
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