Rise of the Rocket Girls

Nathalia Holt is the author of Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV and a former Fellow at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Popular Science, and Time. She lives in Boston.

出版者:Little, Brown US

作者:Nathalia Holt

页数:304

出版时间:2016-4-5

价格:GBP 18.98

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780316338929

图书标签:传记英文原版科学女性语音书SpaceNONFICTION

"If Hidden Figures has you itching to learn more about the women who worked in the space program, pick up Nathalia Holt's lively, immensely readable history, Rise of the Rocket Girls." --Entertainment Weekly

The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.

In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.

For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women--known as "human computers"--who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been, and the far reaches of space to which we're heading.

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the boom and decline of human computer as a career,the failure and glory of space program,the political context behind each project.

the boom and decline of human computer as a career,the failure and glory of space program,the political context behind each project.

the boom and decline of human computer as a career,the failure and glory of space program,the political context behind each project.

the boom and decline of human computer as a career,the failure and glory of space program,the political context behind each project.