BAFAM April Crossword Challenge - Week 3

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  1. 1. The primary goal of the STS-51L mission was to launch which satellite?
  2. 3. Ronald McNair receive a bachelor's degree from North Carolina ________ and Technical State University in physics in 1971?
  3. 6. From which location did the space shuttle Challenger launch on January 28, 1986, before the disaster?
  4. 8. In which city was Ronald McNair born on October 21, 1950?
  5. 12. Dorothy Vaughan receive a bachelor's degree in mathematics from ________ University in 1929?
  6. 13. Dorothy Vaughan's life is detailed in which book and movie?
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  1. 2. Who was an American physicist and astronaut killed in the Challenger disaster?
  2. 4. In which city was Dorothy Vaughan born in 1910?
  3. 5. Christa ________ was selected as a payload specialist on the STS-51L mission and was to give lessons from space to students around the world?
  4. 7. Ronald McNair worked as a staff physicist at ________ Research Laboratories where he studied lasers?
  5. 9. Dorothy Vaughan temporarily joined the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Virginia during ______ War II?
  6. 10. Where did Ronald McNair earn his doctoral degree in physics in 1976?
  7. 11. Dorothy ________ became NASA's first Black manager and led the segregated "West Area Computing" unit?
  8. 14. What was the name of Ronald McNair's first spaceflight mission on the space shuttle Challenger?