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Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.
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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
African American women -- Biography.
African American mathematicians -- Biography.
Space race.
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Hidden figures [larg...
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Hidden figures [large type] : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / Margot Lee Shetterly.
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Shetterly, Margot Lee, author.
New York, NY : Harper Luxe, [2016]
Subjects
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
African American women -- Biography.
African American mathematicians -- Biography.
Space race.
ISBN:
9780062466440 (large print ; paperback) :
0062466445 (large print ; paperback)
Description:
xxiv, 543 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Edition:
First Harper Luxe edition.
Contents:
A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who moved forward -- Breaking the barriers -- Home by the sea -- The area rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of attack -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Outer space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- To boldly go.
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The true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space.
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Nanakuli Public Library
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LT 510.9252 Sh
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