Rise of the Rocket Girls : The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars (Hardcover)

from ajlewis2

This book covers the professional lives of women who were good at math and crunched numbers for calculating all aspects of the early unmanned rockets. It covers over 50 years of work with details of successes and failures. In the early days they worked with pencil and paper. Later there were earl...

from bogopea

This book tells the wonderful story of the women who were instrumental in the evolution of rocketry and space exploration. Because they were women, no matter how well educated, they could not be called "engineers" as their male colleagues were. These women were called "computers". Holt does a gre...

from dukedom_enough

One stereotype of the early years of space exploration is that those years belonged to men. Nathalia Holt's book explores one sense in which that stereotype is false, as she traces the careers of a number of remarkable women who worked at NASA's famed Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) from its founding in...

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I give this a 4.5 You know when you find a book that takes you into your past and helps you to want to learn more? That for me is this book. I enjoyed meeting, learning and being encouraged by the female "computers" of the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. My father was a computer progr...

from Christina_E_Mitchell

I have a saying I often include as a prelude to a forwarded social media posting boasting of the historical accomplishments of a woman: "Women never did anything but support their history-making husbands." The prelude is sarcastic and a biting response to a history professor (male) who replied to...