Hidden Figures

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Across
  1. 4. Laws that segregated whites and blacks
  2. 8. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  3. 9. She becomes a pioneer for computer programming.
  4. 11. Where the black female human computers worked
  5. 13. The name given to America's first human spaceflight
  6. 15. President Obama awarded Katherine Johnson this Presidential Medal in 2015.
  7. 17. Russian Satellite
  8. 18. Job that Dorothy Vaughn was denied even though she was doing that work.
Down
  1. 1. The spacecraft that John Glenn name for his orbit around Earth.
  2. 2. First black female engineer.
  3. 3. An expert in math.
  4. 5. Small cards that were used to program the IBM computer.
  5. 6. Astronaut that relied on Katherine Johnson for calculations for his mission.
  6. 7. Air Force base in Virginia where story takes place.
  7. 10. of numbers that tell where something can be found.
  8. 12. Katherine Johnson's specialty.
  9. 13. High-level programming language used by the IBM computer.
  10. 14. Company that made the first electronic computers.
  11. 16. She calculated trajectories for Alan Shepard and John Glenn.
  12. 19. Separation of people by race, color or religion.