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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Edwards, Sue Bradford, author.     Subjects     Langley Research Center -- History -- Juvenile literature.     United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     Aerospace engineers -- Juvenile literature.     African American astronauts -- Juvenile literature.     Women astronauts -- Juvenile literature.     Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.     Space race -- History -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Edwards, Sue Bradford, author.       by title:      Hidden human compute...         MARC Display

Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris and Duchess Harris, JDm PHD. by Edwards, Sue Bradford, author. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, c2017. Subjects Langley Research Center -- History -- Juvenile literature.   United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.   Aerospace engineers -- Juvenile literature.   African American astronauts -- Juvenile literature.   Women astronauts -- Juvenile literature.   Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.   African American mathematicians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.   African American women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.   Space race -- History -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9781680783872 (library binding) 1680783874 (library binding) Series:  Hidden heroes. Description:  112 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm. Contents:  NASA's secret -- Human computers -- Educating Black America -- Flight and fight -- Segregated science -- Challenging the space race -- Race, place, and outer space -- Science in space -- Hidden no more -- Timeline -- Essential facts. Requests:  0 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.-- Edwards 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.-- Audience:  Ages 12-17.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Edwards Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Ed Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library YA -- Nonfiction 510.9252 Ed Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waialua Public Library J -- Juvenile Nonfiction 510.9252 Ed Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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