Hidden human computers, the black women of NASA, by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris and Duchess Harris, JDm PHD
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Label
Hidden human computers, the black women of NASA, by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris and Duchess Harris, JDm PHD
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-109) and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
illustrationsportraits
Index
index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 12-17
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Hidden human computers
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
958783188
Responsibility statement
by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris and Duchess Harris, JDm PHD
Series statement
Hidden heroes
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader AR, MG+, 7.7, 3, 187975.
Sub title
the black women of NASA
Summary
Discusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth.--, Source other than the Library of CongressEdwards and Harris discuss the critical contributions black women made to NASA in the 1950s. They performed by hand the calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Their efforts made it possible for young black women of subsequent generations to become the mathematicians and astrophysicists of today.--, Source other than the Library of Congress
Target audience
adolescent
resource.variantTitle
Black women of NASA
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Creator
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- Biographies
- Juvenile works
- Women astronauts -- Juvenile literature
- Mathématiciens noirs américains -- Biographies
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
- Women engineers
- Aerospace engineers -- Juvenile literature
- Femmes astronautes -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Conquête de l'espace
- African American women
- African American women -- Biography
- Women -- Biography
- Space race
- Aerospace engineers
- Langley Research Center, West Area Computing -- History
- Langley Research Center -- History
- African American mathematicians -- Biography
- Noires américaines -- Biographies
- Women astronauts
- African American astronauts -- Juvenile literature
- African American astronauts
- African American women mathematicians
- Astronautes noirs américains -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Ingénieurs en aérospatiale -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- collective biographies
- Young adult literature
- Mathématiciennes -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- African Americans -- Biography
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- Biographies
- Juvenile works
- Women astronauts -- Juvenile literature
- Mathématiciens noirs américains -- Biographies
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
- Women engineers
- Aerospace engineers -- Juvenile literature
- Femmes astronautes -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Conquête de l'espace
- African American women
- African American women -- Biography
- Women -- Biography
- Space race
- Aerospace engineers
- Langley Research Center, West Area Computing -- History
- Langley Research Center -- History
- African American mathematicians -- Biography
- Noires américaines -- Biographies
- Women astronauts
- African American astronauts -- Juvenile literature
- African American astronauts
- African American women mathematicians
- Astronautes noirs américains -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Ingénieurs en aérospatiale -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- collective biographies
- Young adult literature
- Mathématiciennes -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- African Americans -- Biography
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