Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris, JD, PHD.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color), portraitsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781624023118
- Black women of NASA
- United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Officials and employees -- Juvenile literature
- African American women mathematicians -- Juvenile literature
- Women mathematicians -- United States -- Juvenile literature
- African American women -- Juvenile literature
- African American mathematicians -- Juvenile literature
- Space race -- Juvenile literature
- Aerospace engineers -- Juvenile literature
- African American astronauts -- Juvenile literature
- QA27 .H533 2017
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) | G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE | Non-fiction | QA27.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn968782552 |
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 -- Glossary.
Hidden Human Computers 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. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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