Which of the following describes the attitude toward girls at the time Katherine Johnson was born?
Girls were given more opportunities than boys.
Girls weren’t valued for their abilities.
Under segregation laws, African-American people were
separated from white people and treated poorly.
encouraged to work with white people.
What did Katherine Johnson do at age 15?
She started college.
She started working for NASA.
The human computers at NASA were
electronic machines made of metal and wires.
women who did calculations with numbers.
Which best describes the organization of black and white human computers at NASA in the 1950s?
Blacks and whites all worked and ate meals together.
Blacks and whites could not work and eat together.
How did Katherine Johnson respond when certain meetings at NASA were only for men?
She attended the meetings because it wasn't illegal.
She never asked to attend.
By 1958, America was involved in a race with the Soviet Union to
explore outer space.
build the smallest electronic computer.
The trajectory of a rocket is the
astronaut who flies in it.
path it takes.
In which space missions did Katherine Johnson play a role?
Alan Shepard’s first flight into space
John Glenn’s first orbit of the Earth
ALL OF THESE
Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon
What did John Glenn ask Katherine Johnson to do before he orbited the Earth?
double check the computer calculations
fly with him in the spacecraft around the Earth
