An inspirational group of African American women — all NASA scientists — received the nation’s highest civilian honor this week at the Capitol.
They were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, and a select group of Oklahoma women was able to witness it.
House Science Committee Chairman Frank Lucas and his Democratic predecessor, the late Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, co-sponsored the 2019 legislation that both hoped would make certain that the achievements of these four gifted mathematicians and engineers — Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson — documented in the 2016 book “Hidden Figures,” would be hidden no more…