Vocabulary
to keep people or groups apart
segregate
a mathematician(human computer) who did important calculations for space flights(orbital mechanics)
A).Christine Darden
B).Mary Jackson
C)Katherine Johnson
D)Dorothy Vaughan
C)Katherine Johnson
What was Rosa Parks known for during the Civil Rights Movement?
Refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white person
the study of flight and air travel
aeronautics
A computer programmer who helped NASA with the computers. She was promoted to a supervisor in charge of the computer programming dept.
A. Christine Darden B. Dorothy Vaughan C. Mary Jackson
B. Dorothy Vaughan
7.What significant calculation did Katherine Johnson make in 1961?
A.The orbit of the International Space Station
B.The trajectory for a Mars mission
C.The path for America's first human space flight
D.The path for the first moon landing
C. The path for America's first human space flight
After Rosa Parks was arrested, a group of leaders organized the Montgomery Bus ________. For over a year, Black people in Montgomery refused to ride the city buses.
Boycott
To refuse to use or buy something as a protest
boycott
an engineer who made important contributions to space science.
A. Mary Jackson B. Christine Darden C. Dorothy Vaughan
A. Mary Jackson
7.What year was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
A.1970
B.1968
C.1977
D. 1965
B. 1968
Women at Langley were known as human ______________________.
computers
If someone gives up something important to help someone else, what is this called?
sacrifice
the world’s leading expert on supersonic and predicting sonic booms.
A). Dorothy Vaughan
B). Mary Jackson
C). Christine Darden
C. Christine Darden
This civil rights activist was very believed that everyone should be treated equally, no matter the color of their skin. He worked hard to help people gain equal rights.
Martin Luther King Jr.
What does NACA stand for?
National Advisory Committee of Aeronautics
the unfair or unjust treatment of someone based on their religion, race, gender etc.
Ruby Bridges
What laws made life very difficult for Black people, and did not allow them to use the same schools, restaurants, or even sit in the same places on buses as white people.
The Jim Crow Laws
What did WWII create for women?