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Chapter 15 Young, Gifted and Black
1. Explain why Sputnik was important to the United States. What did it mean to engineers? (123-124)
2. Explain the importance of October 5, 1957. (125)
3. What was PRESIDENT Dwight D. Eisenhower's reaction to Sputnik? (125)
4. Explain three times in U.S. history that American was behind other countries technologically. 125
5. Explain why Christine Mann was concerned about Brown vs. Board of Education.
Dr. Christine Darden is an American mathematician, data analyst, and aeronautical engineer who devoted much of her 40-year career in aerodynamics at NASA to researching supersonic flight and sonic booms.
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