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Hidden human computers the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris, JD, PHD.

Author/creator	Edwards, Sue Bradford
Other author	Harris, Duchess.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017]
Description	112 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete
Subjects	Langley Research Center. West Area Computing--History. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Biography. United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--History. Aerospace engineers--Juvenile literature. African American astronauts--Juvenile literature. Women astronauts--Juvenile literature. Women mathematicians--United States. --Biography. African American mathematicians--Biography. African American women--Biography. Space race. Engineers. Astronauts. Aerospace engineers. Mathematicians. African Americans--Biography. Women--Biography.

Portion of title	Black women of NASA
Series	Hidden heroes Hidden heroes. UNAUTHORIZED
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.
Abstract	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.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
Abstract	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.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-109) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2016910293
ISBN	9781680783872 (hardback)
ISBN	1680783874 (hardback)

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