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Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
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Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
-- Black women of NASA
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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.
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Title
Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA -- Black women of NASA
Call No
629.4 EDW
Authors
Edwards, Sue Bradford
Harris, Duchess.
Subjects
Langley Research Center. West Area Computing--History.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Biography.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--History.
Aerospace engineers--Juvenile literature.
African American astronauts--Juvenile literature.
Women astronauts--Juvenile literature.
African American women mathematicians.
Women engineers.
African American women.
Women astronauts.
African American astronauts.
Aerospace engineers.
Language
English
Published
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017]
Publication Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ;
ISBN
9781680783872

(hardback)

LCCN
2016910293
Series
Hidden heroes
Dimensions
24 cm.