Hidden human computers
Subtitle: the black women of NASA
By: by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris ; content consultant, Duchess Harris
Contributors: Harris, Duchess, author, consultant
Series: Hidden heroes; Hidden heroes
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company; Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781680783872
Subjects: Aerospace engineers; African American astronauts; Langley Research Center. West Area Computing; Juvenile literature; History; United States; Langley Research Center; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Women astronauts; African American women; African American women mathematicians; Women engineers; African Americans; Biography; Women
Other titles: Black women of NASA
Description: Discusses how in the 1950s, black women made critical contributions to NASA by performing calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-109) and index.

Ages 12-17.
Table of contents: title: NASA's secret; title: Human computers; title: Educating Black America; title: Flight and fight; title: Segregated science; title: Challenging the space race; title: Race, place, and outer space; title: Science in space; title: Hidden no more; title: Timeline; title: Essential facts.