Hidden Figures

NACA stands for

• National Association Commons for Air

• Nation Accounts Committee for Airspace

• National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

• National Association Committee for Space

Who was the 1st to be promoted into a management position at NACA?

• Mary Jackson

• Dorothy Vaughan

• Christina Darden

• Katherine Johnson

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Who helped do the math that sent the 1st men into space?

• Dorothy Vaughan

• Christine Darden

• Katherine Johnson

• Mary Jackson

The four women did work during what period of time?

• peace

• Civil War

• leap year

• racial segregation

African Americans interested in math usually became ________________________.

• engineers

• housewives

• doctors

• math teachers

The laboratory the women met at was called ____________________.

• Langston Hughes

• Langley

• NASA

• LyondellBassell

The first Russian cosmonaut was __________________________.

• Buzz Aldrin

• Yuri Gagarin

• Boris Yeltsin

• Vladimir Komarov

Why couldn't African Americans sit at the same tables or use the same bathrooms as white people?

• segregation

• desegregation

• Covid

• none of the above

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The four African American women were technically mathematicians or ________________________.

• calculators

• scientists

• computers

• number crunchers

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In 1958, NACA changed its name to this name which is still used today ?

• UNICEF

• NCAA

• NAPA

• NASA