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About
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from
Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt:
When the Jet Propulsion Laboratory first began researching rocket
science and the possibilities within space exploration in the
middle of the twentieth century, they hired a hyper intelligent
group of female mathematicians to work with their staff of
engineers.
In
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from
Missiles to the Moon to Mars, Nathalia Holt examines four
decades of the JPL’s major accomplishments from interviews and
research of these groundbreaking women who were recruited to be
“human computers,” Including, from this team of unsung heroes,
Barbara Paulson, Helen Ling, Sue Finley, and Sylvia Lundy.
As the JPL’s projects evolved from developing missiles and
satellites to executing moon landings and planetary exploration
projects, the women’s roles grew too, becoming the team responsible
for launching America into Space—and they did it all while
balancing marriage and children, too.
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