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Genre/Form: | Young adult literature Juvenile works Biographies collective biographies History Biography Juvenile literature Ouvrages pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Biography, Secondary (senior high) school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sue Bradford Edwards; Duchess Harris |
ISBN: | 9781680783872 1680783874 |
OCLC Number: | 958783188 |
Target Audience: | Ages 12-17. |
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. |
Series Title: | Hidden heroes. |
Other Titles: | Black women of NASA |
Responsibility: | by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris and Duchess Harris, JDm PHD. |
Abstract:
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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