<ul><li>NASA leaders unveiled a portrait of Mary W. Jackson, pioneering aerospace engineer and mathematician at NASA’s Langley Research Center.</li><li>The portrait is displayed at the NASA Headquarters Mary W. Jackson Building in Washington.</li><li>Jackson became NASA’s first African American female engineer in 1958.</li><li>She worked to impact the hiring and promotion of the next generation of NASA's female mathematicians, engineers, and scientists before retiring in 1985.</li></ul>

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