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Sally Ride and Margaret Hamilton

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Margaret Hamilton created the term _____.

a)

software developer

b)

computer engineer

c)

software engineer

d)

space engineer

2.

Which space program was Margaret Hamilton involved in?

a)

Sputnik

b)

Gemini

c)

Mercury

d)

Apollo

3.

What type of software did Margaret Hamilton develop while at MIT?

a)

Weather predicting software

b)

Weather describing software

c)

Stock predicting software

d)

Flight path predicting software

4.

While at the SAGE project, what did Margaret Hamilton develop?

a)

A program to identify unknown spaceships.

b)

A program to identify meteors.

c)

A program to land on the moon.

d)

A program to identify enemy aircraft.

5.

What did Margaret Hamilton establish after leaving NASA?

a)

Hamilton Technologies

b)

Highest Order Software

c)

Hamilton Aerotech

d)

First Order Software

6.

Sally Ride was the first _____.

a)

woman in space

b)

female NASA astronaut

c)

space shuttle commander

d)

person to walk on the moon

7.

How many times did Sally Ride go to space?

a)

Once

b)

Twice

c)

Three times

d)

Four times

8.

What is true about Sally Ride?

a)

She operated a robotic arm on the space shuttle

b)

She was the third woman in space

c)

She helped investigate the Challenger accident

d)

All of the above

9.

When she was young, Sally Ride enjoyed playing _____.

a)

baseball

b)

soccer

c)

badminton

d)

tennis

10.

Sally Ride went back into space after the Challenger accident.

a)

True

b)

False