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Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
- Title
- Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris and Duchess Harris, JDm PHD.
- Author
- Edwards, Sue Bradford
- Publication
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Harris, Duchess
- Description
- 112 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color); 24 cm
- 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.--
- 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.--
- Series Statement
- Hidden heroes
- Uniform Title
- Hidden heroes.
- Alternative Title
- Black women of NASA
- Subjects
- African American women
- Women mathematicians
- United States
- Women astronauts
- Aerospace engineers
- African American astronauts
- African American women > Biography
- Women astronauts > Juvenile literature
- Aerospace engineers > Juvenile literature
- African American astronauts > Juvenile literature
- Langley Research Center History
- Space race
- African American women > Biography > Juvenile literature
- African American women mathematicians > Biography
- Biography
- African Americans > Biography
- Juvenile works
- Biographies
- Women mathematicians > United States > Biography
- United States > National Aeronautics and Space Administration > Biography
- African American mathematicians
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Juvenile works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-109) and index.
- Audience (note)
- Ages 12-17.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-1118
- ISBN
- 9781680783872
- 1680783874
- LCCN
- 2016910293
- OCLC
- 958783188
- Author
- Edwards, Sue Bradford, author.
- Title
- Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris and Duchess Harris, JDm PHD.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Hidden heroesHidden heroes.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-109) and index.
- Audience
- Ages 12-17.
- Added Author
- Harris, Duchess, author, consultant.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-1118