Hidden Figures

What was the primary role of "computers" like Dorothy Vaughan at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics during World War II?

• Designing buildings

• Doing math for airplane design

• Flying airplanes

• Training new pilots

What significant barrier did Mary Jackson overcome to become the first African American female engineer at the laboratory?

• Lack of mathematical skills

• Inability to use a wind tunnel

• Being denied access to necessary high-level math classes

• Not being allowed to work with white colleagues

How did Katherine Johnson eventually gain permission to attend meetings with her team to prepare research reports?

• She threatened to quit her job

• Her boss realized she was the only one who could do the math

• She repeatedly asked her boss until he finally agreed

• She secretly attended the meetings without permission

What was a direct consequence of Russia's Sputnik satellite launch in 1957?

• The United States immediately landed a man on the moon.

• The United States began building its own satellites to explore space.

• The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was dissolved.

• President Kennedy announced a mission to send humans to Mars.

What was Katherine Johnson's crucial contribution to astronaut John Glenn's space mission?

• She designed the spacecraft that carried him into orbit.

• She was the first person to communicate with him from Earth.

• She calculated the precise trajectories for his flight and verified machine computations.

• She trained John Glenn for his spacewalk.