Name: Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women who Helped win the Space Race (in English)
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Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
ISBN: 9780008201326

portada Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women who Helped win the Space Race (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Harper Collins

Author

Margot Lee Shetterly

Synopsis "Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women who Helped win the Space Race (in English)"

The Top 10 Sunday Times BestsellerNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted ScreenplaySet amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as ‘Human Computers’, calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these ‘colored computers’ used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.Moving from World War II through NASA’s golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women’s rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of mankind’s greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.