Rise of the rocket girls the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars
In the 1940s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians, it recruited an elite group of young women -- known as human computers -- who, with only pencil, paper, and brain power, helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But their hearts lay in...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Back Bay Books (Little, Brown and Company),
2017.
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| Edition: | First Back Bay paperback edition, January 2017. |
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Centre County Library, Bellefonte
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629.4709 Ho |
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| Copy 622553 | Checked In Place a Hold |
