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1903: Wright Brothers first powered flight
The wright brothers Wilbur and Orville invented the first powered aircraft on december 17 1903 in North Carolina. -
1915: Federal Government National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
The national advisory committee for aeronautics or better known as NACA. The name NASA would later be created because of the space race between the USA and Soviet Union on July 29 1958. -
1929-1939:The Great Depression
The great depression all started with black Thursday this is the day that every investor in America sold approximately 16 million shares all at once just before the stock market crash. This 10 year span sent all of America in a severe state of poverty. Between 1929 and 1939 could be considered the worst decade in Northern American history. -
1935: The Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory establishes first female computing pool
The first women to work in the computing pool of NASA was a group of 400 in 1935. This first happened at NASA's Langley research centre in Hampton, Virgina. The women working here were extremely accelerated in mathematics. This was unheard of at the time. -
May 1943: The Langley Memorial Laboratory establishes the first segregated computing pool for black women
In may of 1943 the Langley research centre established the first segregated labratory for NASA. These were the first black women to particeapate in the space race between U.S and soviet union. -
1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in the front of a public bus
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to the white man, back then the buses were segregated in black and white. This happened in Montgomery, Alabama white people were very against black people and the black were punished for thier skin and their rules. -
1957: Soviet Union launched Sputnik, and the dawn of the Space Age begins
When the soviet union launch spunk it was revolutionary because it was the very first artificial satellite. This shocked America which led to the space race between U.S.A and the soviet union. -
1958: Space Act creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Because of the newly started space race, the U.S.A started NASA to compete with the soviet union by transforming NACA to NASA. The NACA was like an earlier version of NASA. -
1961: Ham, the first chimp to be launched into space
Ham was the name of the first chimp sent into space by NASA. When the monkey returned it died on impact. Ham was purchased at a bird farm in Miami, Florida. -
1969: Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans to land on the moon
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin were the first to land on the moon which won the space race for the U.S.A there mission name was Apollo 11. After blasting off they arrived 4 days later on the moon. They launched at Kennedy Space Center wear this revolyoinary event took place.
