- Additional Authors
- Harris, Duchess.
- Description
- 1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color)
- 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 human computers (Online)
- Hidden heroes.
- Alternative Title
- Hidden human computers (Online)
- Black women of NASA
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-109) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Audience (note)
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2016910293
- OCLC
- ssj0001841809
- Author
Edwards, Sue Bradford.
- Title
Hidden human computers [electronic resource] : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris, JD, PHD.
- Imprint
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017]
- Series
Hidden heroes
Hidden heroes.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-109) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Audience
Ages 12-17.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Harris, Duchess.