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...
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| 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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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- January 1958 : launch day
- 1940s
- Up, up, and away
- Headed west
- 1950s
- Rockets rising
- Miss guided missile
- Holding back
- Ninety days and ninety minutes
- Moonglow
- 1960s
- Analog overlords
- Planetary pull
- The last queen of outer space
- 1970s : today
- Men are from mars
- Look like a girl
- Epilogue.
