Why Nobody Black working in NASA?

The premise of the question is utterly false. Where does such a wackadoo idea come from? I'm sure this guy, the head of NASA, would be very surprised to hear this revelation. 12.1% of NASA employees are black. 13.3% of Americans are black and 6% of STEM workers, across the US, are black. read more

Nasa research mathematician Katherine Johnson at her desk at the Langley Research Center in 1966. Photograph: NASA It proved difficult for the West Computers to move beyond their roles and get promotions to other areas of the institution, such as working directly for an engineering team, unlike the white mathematicians. read more

Johnson was born in 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, where education for black people ended in eighth grade. Recognizing their youngest daughter's talent for math, her parents sent her to high school on the campus of West Virginia State Institute, a black college 100 miles away. read more