Walter Cunningham is one of the prominent astronauts in American history. Although he's already retired, he's currently the chairman of the<em> Texas Aerospace Commission.</em>So, this makes him a Texas scientific leader.
Together with Schirra and Don Eisele, Cunningham helped created the first-ever live television transmission from space. It was broadcast from Apollo 7 <em>(October 1968)</em>, which was an<u> eleven-day flight</u> towards moon.
The average person spent significantly less years in school than a hundred years ago. In the year 1900, an adult had an average of 8.7 years of schooling. The average American, aged 25 or older, has completed 13.5 years of education.
From 1861 to 1900, the Civil War fostered a great deal of economic change in the United States. During this period, the economic change most fostered by the Civil War included (1) an end to slavery; (2) an increase in the need for cheap labor to work in the factories; and (3) an increase in railroad building.
The great depression and the roaring 20s. The roaring 20s were a fun time that nobody cared how much money they spent and that created the great depression.