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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
By Holt, Nathalia
- ISBN
- 9780316338929 9780316338912
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
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Starred Review on March 15, 2016 | Social Sciences
In her latest offering, Holt (Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV) turns her attention to the women who served as "human computers"—people who computed data—for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), focusing on the laboratory's inception in the 1940s through the 1960s. These women did not occupy the usual positions open to females at the time (secretaries, nurses, or teachers) but instead worked alongside engineers to calculate trajectories, identi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
