By Melissa Noel ·Updated September 23, 2024
A group of Black women, crucial to NASA’s achievements during the space race and famously known as the “Hidden Figures,” were honored with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill.
These trailblazing mathematicians and engineers considered essential to NASA’s work from 1930 to 1970, helped launch America into space by calculating rocket trajectories and orbits that put men on the moon, all while facing the
