Hidden Figures por Shetterly, Margot Lee - 2016

William Collins, 2016. Paperback. Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The #1 New York Times Bestseller Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NAS A's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in Ame rica's space program. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked a s 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these h istoric achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented Africa n-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these 'coloured 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.