Black NASA Employees Go Viral After Sharing Headshots On Social Media

Photo: Instagram A Black engineer sparked a viral trend after sharing his professional headshot for NASA. On Thursday (March 14), Tyrone Jacobs Jr., a component engineer for NASA, shared his official work photo on X, formerly Twitter. The post has since garnered 35 million views and over 200,000 likes with social media users applauding Jacobs for making a space for himself in STEM as a Black man with locs. Other Black NASA employees followed suit, posting their own professional headshots using the hashtag #BlackAtNasa. & & & & & & View this post on Instagram & & & & & & & & & & & & A post shared by Tyrone Jacobs Jr. (@tyronejacobsjr) & Shout out to us black engineers at NASA! Always cool to contribute to space exploration. Let’s keep pushing boundaries together and chase our dreams!