Prices in the Los Angeles area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), declined 0.3 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A .) Regional Commissioner Richard J. Holden noted that the August decrease was influenced by lower prices for gasoline.
NASA officials were reportedly especially impressed with her course on The American Woman which she had developed and taught. Barbara Morgan was the backup Teacher in Space who also trained with NASA in the astronaut training program. Christa McAuliffe was scheduled to teach two lessons from the space shuttle.
Katherine Johnson, the NASA Mathematician Who Advanced Human Rights with a Slide Rule and Pencil. NASA chief Charles Bolden recalls the historic trajectory of the âhuman computerâ who played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing, and as a female African-American in the 1960s, shattered stereotypes in the process. Katherine Johnson, photographed at Fort Monroe, in Hampton, Virginia. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz. When I was growing up, in segregated South Carolina, African-American role models in national life were few and far between.