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Hidden human computers: the black women of NASA

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Edwards, Sue Bradford
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Hidden heroes
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Hidden heroes
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Aims Greeley Children's
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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.--
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.--
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Aerospace engineers
Aerospace engineers -- Juvenile literature
African American astronauts
African American astronauts -- Juvenile literature
African American mathematicians
African American mathematicians -- Juvenile literature
African American women
African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
African American women -- Juvenile literature
African American women mathematicians
African American women mathematicians -- Biography
African American women mathematicians -- Juvenile literature
Biographies
Electronic books
History
Langley Research Center -- History
Langley Research Center. -- West Area Computing -- History
Officials and employees
Space race
Space race -- Juvenile literature
United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography
United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History
United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Juvenile literature
Women astronauts
Women astronauts -- Juvenile literature
Women engineers
Women engineers -- Biography
Women mathematicians
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Juvenile literature
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Harris, Duchess,author,consultant
ISBN:
9781680783872
9781624023118
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Level 7.7, 3 Points
Lexile measure:
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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.-- 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.--
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African American women -- Juvenile literature
African American women mathematicians -- Biography
African American women mathematicians -- Juvenile literature
Biographies
Electronic books
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Langley Research Center. -- West Area Computing -- History
Space race -- Juvenile literature
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United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History
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Women astronauts -- Juvenile literature
Women engineers -- Biography
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Juvenile literature
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African American astronauts
African American mathematicians
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African American women mathematicians
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History
Officials and employees
Space race
Women astronauts
Women engineers
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