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Mary Jackson feels that supporting science and improving the lives of others go hand in hand.

Which detail from “Mary Jackson Biography” best supports this idea?

A)She becomes frustrated when she is only able to achieve a certain level in her career as a black female.

B)Mary is the first African American female to be trained to become an engineer at NASA.

C)Mary is chosen to work on a project conducting experiments in a wind tunnel that produces winds at speeds close to twice the speed of sound.

D)She changes jobs and even takes a pay cut so she can be in a position to help other women working at NASA to move ahead.

The article “NASA Langley’s Modern Figures Reflect on Changing Times, ‘Hidden Figures’” makes the point that Amer, Martinez, and Williams-Byrd feel it is their responsibility to help others thrive in the workplace?

What evidence from the text best supports this point?

“One example Amer gave was that she was invited to give a talk at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and met a young woman engineer who did not know her deputy center director at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.”

“’We do watch out for one another and we also watch out for those women who are coming up and helping them – giving them mentoring and information about what’s available, what they can do and help them navigate the world,’ Williams-Byrd said.”

“‘We kind of gravitated toward each other,’ Martinez said. ‘We’re all in different fields so it’s not like we ran into each other all the time.’”

“Amer, Martinez and Williams-Byrd, all engineers, have known each other for 25 years. When they started out, there weren’t as many women at Langley as there are now.”