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Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Black Voices | Kids PEQ
DEN: Across the Universe! ⭐
JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Women's History (Children)
DEN: Across the Universe! ⭐
JEF - Black Voices (Children)
JEF - Women's History (Children)
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Young readers' edition.
Language
English
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Description
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's...
Author
Series
Ordinary people change the world volume 35
Pub. Date
[2025]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the first female astronaut, Sally Ride, and what made her heroic"- Provided by publisher.
10) Sally Ride
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Sally Ride was the first American female astronaut to go to space. She worked on a space shuttle for two different missions. But Sally Ride did more than just travel to space. She also was a teacher, an author, and a scientist. Learn more about her amazing life in this new level 3 biography!,"--page [4] of cover.
11) Sally Ride
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Sally Ride in the She Persisted series"-- Provided by publisher.
12) Space heroes
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
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Description
Profiles four women who have been integral to NASA's space program, helping to develop the Hubble Space Telescope, create computer code to send spacecraft to the moon, and work onboard the space shuttle.
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