Vocabulary
having many uses
versatile
First African-American woman to be promoted to management
Dorothy Vaughan
NASA Mission Control
Houston
First man on the moon
Another name for mathematicians
move around something in a circle
orbit
Pierced sound barrier in Mohave Desert
Chuck Yeager
Became a military capital
August 14, 1945
End of WWII
Study of how projectiles move through space
Trajectory Analysis
look at something carefully and closely
scrutinize
First woman to attend editorial meeting at Langley
Katherine Goble Johnson
President who desegregated the military
Harry S. Truman
August 28, 1963
March on Washington D.C.
Astronaut who said, "Get the girl to check the numbers"
John Glenn
advanced knowledge and skill
expertise
Woman who participated in nonviolent protests in 1960
Christine Mann Darden
Said that the African-American dream is the same as the American dream
Martin Luther King Jr.
The court case that ended school segregation
Brown v. Board of Education
First man on the moon
Neil Armstrong
being clever, creative, imaginative
ingenuity
Civil Rights leader who encouraged President Roosevelt to desegregate the federal government
A. Philip Randolph
President who promised U.S. would put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960's
John F. Kennedy
The court case that ended segregation on interstate buses
Morgan v. Virginia
Study of objects moving through air
Fundamental Theory of Aerodynamics