Edwards, Sue Bradford, author.
Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris and Duchess Harris, JDm PHD.
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.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
Edwards and Harris discuss the critical contributions black women made to NASA in the 1950s. They performed by hand the calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Their efforts made it possible for young black women of subsequent generations to become the mathematicians and astrophysicists of today.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
Langley Research Center -- History.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography.
Langley Research Center. West Area Computing -- History.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Biography.
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- History.
Aerospace engineers -- Juvenile literature.
African American astronauts -- Juvenile literature.
Women astronauts -- Juvenile literature.
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography.
African American mathematicians -- Biography.
African American women -- Biography.
Space race.
African American women mathematicians.
Women engineers.
African American women.
Women astronauts.
African American astronauts.
Aerospace engineers.
Women -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
Young adult literature.
Juvenile works.
Biographies.
Harris, Duchess, author, consultant.