Alena Analeigh Wicker born in 2008 is the youngest Black person to be accepted into medical school in the United States (in 2024) , and the second-youngest person to be accepted into medical school overall. She is also the youngest person ever to work as an intern at NASA.
Read more "Alena Analeigh Wicker"Vanessa Wyche is the first black person of any gender to become the Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center in 2018.
Read more "Vanessa Wyche"She started in science at age 8 building projects from The Boys First Book of Electronics.
Read more "Valerie Thomas"Hidden Figures won the weekend of 1/9/17’s box office knocking Rogue One from the spot it held for 3 weeks. Taraji P. Henson portrays Katherine Johnson an African American physicist, space scientist and mathematician. Mrs. Johnson is 98 years old. Octavia Spencer portrays Dorothy Vaughan also 98 years old. Janelle Monae portrays Mary Jackson also […]
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