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Hidden Figures (Young Readers' Edition)

Hidden Figures (Young Readers' Edition)

The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space

by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hardback
Publication Date: 29/11/2016

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Now in a special new edition perfect for young readers, this is the amazing true story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Soon to be a major motion picture.

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, four African-American women 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.

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ISBN:
9780606396233
9780606396233
Category:
People & places (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
29-11-2016
Publisher:
Turtleback Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
191x130x23mm
Weight:
1.25kg
Margot Lee Shetterly

Margot Lee Shetterly is an independent scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award recipient, currently at work on The Human Computer Project, a digital archive of the stories of NASA’s female Human Computers.

She is one of the founders of Inside Mexico Magazine, an English-language magazine for Mexico’s expat population, and in her former lives worked as an Internet executive and an investment banker.

She splits her time between Hampton, Virginia and Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

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