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2) Space heroes
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Hidden Human Computers 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.
Author
Publisher
Harpercollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Katherine, Dorothy, Mary, and Christine were hardworking and persistent and most important, smart. And that s why NASA hired them as mathematicians, also known as colored computers, to help send the United States into space for the very first time. This inspiring story brings to life these four hidden figures and what they overcame to succeed, changing not only their own lives, but the face of air and space travel forever.