Margot Lee Shetterly Primary Author mixed material bibliography New York HarperCollins Publishers 2016 en English

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The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly's acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It is the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Now a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. 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. NONE 9780062662378 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 510.925 SHE Hid 8079 C2O library & collabtive 510.925 SHE Hid HiddenFigures.jpg.jpg 6711 2018-03-17 16:47:28 2018-03-17 16:55:15 machine generated