Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

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Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition

by Margot Lee Shetterly

ISBN
0062662376
Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2016
Pages
240

Categories

Officials and employeesWomen mathematiciansSpace raceUnited StatesAfrican American mathematiciansUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationAfrican American womenUnited States National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationAfrican AmericansJuvenile literatureBiographyWomen

About this book

The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller!
This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It's the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program.
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.