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Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
Title:
Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
ISBN:
9781680783872
Physical Description:
112 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm.
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.
Reading Level:
1080 L Lexile
Local Note:
Signed by author.
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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.
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