Hidden Figures 16-23

How does NACA become NASA

• NACA got tired of their name.

• The expanded agency in Virginia combined all space related groups calling it NASA.

• It was a suggestion from the president.

• Ms. Vaughan changed it.

The governor of Virginia supported the integration of schools (blacks and whites going to school together).

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

Katherine was the ____woman to get her name on a research report.

• 3rd

• 2nd

• 5th

• 1st

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Dorothy Vaughan eventually taught herself to program computers using the computer language....

• Fortnite

• Forscible

• Forthought

• Fortran

Which president declared that a man would land on the man and return safely back to earth before the decade was out?

• Edgar Hoover

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• John F. Kennedy

• Abraham Lincoln

Who was the astronaut chosen for NASA's first orbital flight?

• Joseph McNeil

• Franklin McCain

• David Richmond

• John Glenn

Who was America's competitor in the space race?

• Iran

• Great Britain

• Russia

• Australia

The chosen astronaut trusted the work of .....

• The IBM computers

• Dorothy Vaughan the "colored computers"

• His boss the expert mathematician

• Katherine Johnson

The mission for space orbit was named after the Roman god of flight.....

• Zeus

• Mercury

• Nike

• Icarus

What was the first major failed mission at NASA that cost 3 astronauts their lives?

• Apollo 13

• Apollo 5

• Apollo 1

• Apollo