Nasa To Go Into Space Analysis

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NASA job is to explore space and figure out what is out there and the movie time period where the movie was made in the 1960s during the civil rights movement. The other thing Nasa was dealing with was the space race with russia to see who would make it out to space first. Without this 3 women nasa would of never made it to space. The three women that made this possible for nasa to go into space were Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan they are the women that helped get the first american into space. Nasa would of not been able to make it into space without any of them. They all had a special part in help get a man into space before the russians. Would our lives be different if we didn’t have access to our dreams because of our race or gender. I would say that our lives would be 100 percent different because of those two things for example i want to be a police officer and just because im mexican they would join the police force that would show the segregated world we would live in. That would really suck if we couldn't follow our dreams because you're mexican, black , or any other race because then you would just feel useless to the world and you would always have this feeling …show more content…

When she was 10 she had already completed the eighth grade but in her town there was very limited education for an african american and here father and mother had to drive 120 miles so she could go to highschool. Her family had to live there while she attended high school and by the age of 18 she had already graduated from college and gotten a degree in mathematics and french. While she was working at nasa in the computing section at nasa and they need a “Human Computer” which is a person that can calculate the right math and she helped do the calculation for the 1961 journey to space. She was one of the biggest help to nasa and to keep the spaceman safe on his trip out and on his trip

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