What event motivated African Americans to begin the bus boycott in Montgomery,Alabama?

• White assailants dragged an African American soldier returning home from the waroff a bus and beat him.
• Police jailed Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin for refusing to give up their seats in awhite section of a public bus.
• Emmitt Till was lynched by an angry mob after refusing to leave a whites only bus.

On what day did NASA officially begin operations at the Langley Research Center?

• October 4, 1959
• January 31, 1957
• October 1, 1958

What was the name of the U.S. space program with the mission to orbit a mannedspacecraft around the Earth, investigate man's ability to function in space, and to recoverboth astronauts and spacecraft safely?

• Apollo
• Mercury
• Enterprise

Why was the Mercury space capsule designed with a blunt-shaped body instead of a designsimilar to the sleek lines of an airplane? (188)

• Studies showed that a blunt-shaped body would create a shock wave to buffer thespace capsule from friction and dissipate the heat generated from the Earth'satmosphere during launch and reentry.
• Studies showed that a blunt-shaped body was more aerodynamically efficient,requiring less force at liftoff to propel the capsule into space.
• In order to save time in designing the capsule, American engineers copied thespecifications of the Russian Vostok capsule, which had a blunt-shaped body.

Who of the following was NOT one of the Mercury Seven?

• Alan Shepard
• Scott Carpenter
• Jim Lovell

Due to his role in the Montgomery bus boycott, who assumed the leadership of the civilrights movement?

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Ralph Abernathy
• Malcolm X

What organization took the place of NACA in 1958 to oversee American space exploration?

• NAFTA
• NASA
• NCAA

What was the name of the first U.S. satellite to orbit in space, which launched in January of1958?

• Vanguard
• Sputnik 1
• Explorer 1

Who was the head of the group at NASA's Marshall Space Center that developed the Atlasand Redstone rockets?

• Werhner von Braun
• Paul Robeson
• Gus Grissom

In 1957, Governor Lindsay Almond of Virginia order integrated schools in Virginia to______ as a protest against the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education.

• stage sit-ins
• close down
• pray in silence for the restoration of segregation