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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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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Table of Contents:
- January 1958: Launch day
- Up, up, and away
- Headed west
- Rockets rising
- Miss Guided Missile
- Holding back
- Ninety days and ninety minutes
- Moonglow
- Analog overlords
- Planetary pull
- The last queen of outer space
- Men are from Mars
- Look like a girl.
