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The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller
This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is best for young readers. It’s the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve probably the most greatest moments in our space program. Now a massive motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked at the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians referred to as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that might launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who lived during the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work ceaselessly changed the face of NASA and the rustic.