The designation honours African American mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, featured in the 2016 book Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly and the subsequent film directed by Theodore Melfi.
Nasa, the US space agency, has renamed the street in front of its headquarters Hidden Figures Way, honouring the black female mathematicians who defied racial segregation to play a crucial part in its most celebrated missions.
The movie adaptation of Hidden Figures, which starred Janelle Monáe, Taraji P Henson and Octavia Spencer and received three Oscar nominations, showed the struggle of African American women for equality at Nasa during the era of Jim Crow laws.
In February, Nasa renamed a facility in Fairmont, West Virginia, after Johnson, now 100 years old.