Rocket Girls
This was the "Rocket Girls" actual job title.
What is computer?
This president announced plans to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This was the era of comic books that began in 1956.
What is the Silver Age?
This is the number of hours the average American household spent watching TV daily by 1960.
What is five?
This is the percentage of computer science degrees earned by women today.
What is 18?
This was what the "Rocket Girls" actually did at their job.
What is complex math calculations?
This was the year the Soviet Union put the first man in space.
What is 1961?
This popular singer was drafted into the army in 1958.
Who is Elvis (Presley)?
This was when Black students stayed at whites only lunch counters all day to fight segregation.
What are "sit-ins"?
This was the year the US first put a woman in space, 20 years after the USSR did.
What is 1983?
This is where the "Rocket Girls" worked.
What is NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab?
This event launched the Space Race in 1957.
What is the launch of Sputnik?
These were the two most popular movies of the 1960s.
What are The Sound of Music and The Jungle Book?
This is the number of soldiers the US sent to Vietnam by the end of the 1960s.
What is half a million?
This singing guitar player died in a car crash in 1960, at the age of 21.
Who is Eddie Cochran?
This was the decade the "Rocket Girls" began working at their job.
What is the 1940s?
The US accomplished this in 1969.
What is put the first man on the moon?
These are two of the three new music technologies that became popular in the 1960s.
What are louder amps, reverb, and the electric bass?
This means to allow people of different colors to use the same spaces or facilities.
What is integrate?
This was the mission that NASA launched in 1958 to catch up to the USSR in the Space Race.
What is Explorer I?
This was the year that Laika was the first dog in space.
What is 1957?
Beginning in the 1950s, comic book publishers used this to explain super powers.
What are scientific ideas from the time period? OR radiation/nuclear science
This was the year that America first sent soldiers to Vietnam.
What is 1961?