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The supervisor at the West Area Computing office and a hardworking mother.
Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
A division that Dorothy Vaughn operated that eventually disbanded in 1960.
What is the West Area Computing unit?
A series of peaceful protests from 1960-1964 that supported equal rights for all races.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
An upstart civil right's activist who made a major impact on American culture.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
A derby meant for children that Levi Jackson participated in.
What is the Virginia Peninsula soapbox derby?
The name of the rocket piloted by astronaut Alan Shepherd on the Freedom 7 mission.
What is Mercury-Redstone 3?
The first black, female engineer in American history, a loving mother, and a determined wife and breadwinner.
Who is Mary Jackson?
A prominent American science center that carried out some of the most fantastic space missions of all time.
What is NASA?
A soapbox derby meant for young boys that was popular throughout the '60s and '70s.
What is the Virginia Peninsula soapbox derby?
The son of Mary Jackson.
Who is Levi Jackson?
An unknown but incredibly progressive American science center that specialized in flight but was eventually changed to assist with space travel.
What is NACA Langley?
The coding language of the first computers.
What is FORTRAN?
The first two American citizens to be sent into space, one of them is a human and the other is a chimp.
Who are Ham and Alan Shepherd?
The area where the first civil right's protest took place.
What is Woolworth's drugstore?
The Russian space mission piloted by Yuri Gagarin that is known for its title of the first space mission piloted by a human.
What is Sputnik 3?