Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation Into Space

270,00 EGP

ISBN:9780062662378

 

This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It’s the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. 

Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who lived through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.

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Number of Pages

240

Publication date

2016

Publisher

HarperCollins

Author

Margot Lee Shetterly

ISBN

9780062662378

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