Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space /

Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from...

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Huvudupphovsman: Shetterly, Margot Lee (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Upplaga:Young readers' edition.
Ämnen:
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Officials and employees > Biography > Juvenile literature.
United States. > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Biography.
Women mathematicians > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African American women > Biography > Juvenile literature.
African American mathematicians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
Space race > Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians.
African American women.
African American mathematicians.
Space race.
Biographies.
Biography.
Juvenile works.
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Innehållsförteckning:
  • Setting the scene
  • A door opens
  • Mobilization
  • A new Beginning
  • The double V
  • The "colored" computers
  • War birds
  • The duration
  • Breaking barriers
  • No limits
  • The area rule
  • An exceptional mind
  • Turbulence
  • Progress
  • Young, gifted, and black
  • What a difference a day makes
  • Writing the textbook on space
  • With all deliberate speed
  • Model behavior
  • Degrees of freedom
  • Out of the past, the future
  • America is for everybody
  • One small step.

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