Title:
Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris, JD, PHD.
ISBN:
9781680783872
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Publication Information:
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017]
Physical Description:
112 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Contents:
[Table of 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 -- Glossary.
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.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader MG+ 7.7 3 187975
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Audience:
1080L Lexile
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OCLC Number:
ocn958783188
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
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