NASA's "Hidden Figures" awarded Congressional Gold Medals

Mary Jackson, NASA's first black female engineer, and NASA mathematicians Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan were posthumously awarded Congressional Gold Medals for their work on the U.S. space program.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, who delivered opening remarks during the ceremony, described the women as "giants on whose shoulders all of those astronauts actually stood at a time … when our nation was divided by color and often by gender."

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