Women of NASA

Question 1

Pearl Young wrote the NACA style manual for engineers at what facility?

Accepted Answer

Langley

Question 2

Who was NASA's first black engineer?

Accepted Answer

Mary Jackson

Question 3

Margaret Hamilton lead the team that would develop the navigation system for Apollo at what university?

Accepted Answer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Question 4

Which female astronaut was also the director of the Johnson Space Center?

Accepted Answer

Ellen Ochoa

Question 5

What do you have to do to be officially considered an Astronaut?

Accepted Answer

You have to travel 50 miles above the Earth's surface

Question 6

Where was Sally Ride Born?

Accepted Answer

Los Angeles

Question 7

Kathryn Dwyer Sulllivan became the first woman to...

Accepted Answer

Walk in space

Question 8

Who was the second woman in space?

Accepted Answer

Svetlana Savitskaya

Question 9

When Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman, went into space what picture did she take with her?

Accepted Answer

Bessie Coleman

Question 10

How many women have been in space?

Accepted Answer

59

Question 11

Nancy Grace Roman was NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy. Her crowning achievement is pioneering crusade to develop...

Accepted Answer

Orbital telescopes

Question 12

What does NASA stand for?

Accepted Answer

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Question 13

Astronomer Heidi Hammel is developing an orbital telescope designed to be the Hubble’s successor. What is it called?

Accepted Answer

James Webb Telescope

Question 14

The Apollo moon suites were sewn by home seamstresses to insure accuracy. Neil Armstrong said the suits were basically..

Accepted Answer

Individual Rocket Ships

Question 15

Vera Rubin studied galaxy rotations. Her team discovered an "invisible glue" within galaxies that was named...

Accepted Answer

Dark Matter

Question 16

Annie Easley started at NASA as a computer scientist and became a(n):

Accepted Answer

Rocket Scientist

Question 17

Kitty Joyner sued the University of Virginia to attend an all-male program. What program was it?

Accepted Answer

Engineering

Question 18

Margaret Geller is an astronomer who is working to...

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 19

Who is this beautiful Hidden Figure?

Accepted Answer

Katherine Johnson

Question 20

NASA plans to return to the moon by...

Accepted Answer

2024

Question 21

Shannon Lucid became the first woman to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor where was she born?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 22

The first Indian woman in space was Kalpana Chawla, what year did she go to space?

Accepted Answer

1997

Question 23

Anne McClain and Christina Koch became the first women to:

Accepted Answer

Do an all-female spacewalk

Question 24

How many total NASA space centers are there?

Accepted Answer

10

Question 25

Melba Roy did calculations and predictions about satellites so that people could:

Accepted Answer

Watch them as they passed overhead

Question 26

Who was the first woman to command a spacecraft?

Accepted Answer

Eileen Collins

Question 27

Kathryn P. Hire conducted airborne oceanographic research missions on how many countries?

Accepted Answer

25

Question 28

Stephanie Wilson becomes the first African-American woman to board the International Space Station in what year?

Accepted Answer

2006

Question 29

Project Manager Seunghee Lee learned “If you and I always agree, one of us is not needed here.” at which NASA facility?

Accepted Answer

Kennedy Space Center

Question 30

Who was the first woman in space?

Accepted Answer

Valentina Tereshkova

Question 31

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has stated that the next two people on the moon could both be

Accepted Answer

Women

Question 32

What American female astronaut has spent the most time in space?

Accepted Answer

Peggy Whitson

Question 33

Carolyn Porco is known as a rock star among astronomers. Among her greatest discoveries is...

Accepted Answer

Icy particles on Saturn’s sixth largest moon, Enceladus

Question 34

Dorothy Vaughan was a hidden figure, she was also the first to earn this position title:

Accepted Answer

Supervisor

Question 35

How many of the women who have gone to space have done so with NASA?

Accepted Answer

40

Question 36

Hydyne was developed by Mary Sherman Morgan to be used by NASA as:

Accepted Answer

Rocket Fuel

Question 37

Jill Tarter was the director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute. What does SETI stand for?

Accepted Answer

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Question 38

Which astronomer was nicknamed "The Mother of Hubble" for her role in planning the famous telescope?

Accepted Answer

Nancy Roman

Question 39

Jerrie Cobb & Janey Hart went to congress to ask for women included in the astronaut training on behalf of whom?

Accepted Answer

Mercury 13

Question 40

LEGO released a Women of NASA set. Who was featured in the 231 pieces?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Women of NASA

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Women of NASA

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