Rise of the rocket girls [LP] the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars
In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women -- known as human computers -- who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed ro...
| Main Author: | Holt, Nathalia, 1980- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
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Farmington Hills, Mich. :
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning,
2016.
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| Edition: | Large print edition. |
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