Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
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Book
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Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
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Black women of NASA
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ISBN:
9781680783872
Publication:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017]
Physical Description:
112 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
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Contents:
NASA's secret -- Human computers -- Educating Black America -- Flight and fight -- Segregated science -- Challenging the space race -- Race, place, and outer space -- Science in space -- Hidden no more -- Timeline -- Essential facts.
Summary:
Discusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
Edwards and Harris discuss the critical contributions black women made to NASA in the 1950s. They performed by hand the calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Their efforts made it possible for young black women of subsequent generations to become the mathematicians and astrophysicists of today.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
Reading Level:
Ages 12-17.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.7 3 187975.
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