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Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris, JD, PHD.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Sue Bradford, author.
- Harris, Duchess, author.
- Series:
- Hidden heroes.
- Hidden heroes
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Langley Research Center. West Area Computing--History.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Biography.
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--History.
- Women mathematicians--United States.
- Women mathematicians.
- African American mathematicians.
- African American women.
- Space race.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits, plan.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781624023118
- 1624023118
- OCLC:
- 968782552
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