The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the families of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson and Christine Darden at the U.S. Capitol. Darden watched the ceremony from her ...

July 15 (UPI) --NASA is recognizing the 55th anniversary ... hold a ribbon-cutting in the renaming of Building 12 the Dorothy Vaughan Center, in honor of the "Women of Apollo." ...

Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) & Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in ...