03228cam a2200625 i 4500 299572761 TxAuBib 20170725120000.0 160622s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016910293 9781680783872 1680783874 TxAuBib rda Edwards, Sue Bradford,. Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA / by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris and Duchess Harris, JDm PHD. Black women of NASA. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2017] 112 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Hidden heroes Hidden heroes Includes bibliographical references (pages 106-109) and index. NASA's secret -- Human computers -- Educating Black America -- Flight and fight -- Segregated science -- Challenging the space race -- Race, place, and outer space -- Science in space -- Hidden no more -- Timeline -- Essential facts. 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. Ages 12-17. 20170725. Author Signed Copy. 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. Aerospace engineers. African American astronauts Juvenile literature. African American astronauts. Women astronauts Juvenile literature. Women astronauts. Women mathematicians United States Biography. African American mathematicians Biography. African American women Biography. African American women. African American women. Biography Juvenile literature. Space race. African American women mathematicians. Women engineers. Women Biography. African Americans Biography. Juvenile works. Biographies. Harris, Duchess,. Hidden heroes. Hidden heroes.