Historical Events
Brown V. Board of Education
Ruled separate/segregated schools for Black and White Students were unconstitutional and illegal
NASA stands for
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
A Mathematical Minded Person at NACA
What is a Computer?
Segregation
The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others
Where is Langley Laboratory Located?
Hampton, Virginia
Sit-ins protested what?
They protested segregated seating and white only lunch counters
The First Human Space Flight Program
What is Project Mercury?
NACA stands for
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
The Soviet Union's government is
A Communist Government
The Author of the speech "I Have A Dream"
Martin Luther King jr.
Alan Shepard Piloted which mission?
U.S. first manned mission, Project Mercury
The Space Mission that landed on the moon
What is Apollo 11?
What is FORTRAN
The Computers Language
Subprofessional
Qualified to function below the professional level but distinctly above the clerical or labor level and usually under the supervision of a professionally trained person
What kind of Text Structure is this book?
Sequence or Description
Morgan v. Virginia
Ruled segregated seating on interstate busses was illegal and unconstitutional
Why did NASA close the West Computing Group?
Most of the mathematicians had been permanently reassigned to other engineering groups.
Who reinvented herself to become a computer programmer
Dorothy Vaughn
Trajectory
The path of an object as it moves through space.
The Cold War was a
A time of hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union
whos better karan, tyson, sean, or carter
carter
What job did most of the Women have before working at NACA?
Most of the women were teachers
The First Woman to be named on a Aerospace Mechanics Division report.
Katherine Goble/Johnson
Orbit
The Curved path of an object as it revolves around a planet, star, or moon
E Praeteritis Futura
Out of the past, the Future