Hidden human computers

Description:

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.

subjects: Aerospace engineers,  African American astronauts,  Langley Research Center. West Area Computing,  Juvenile literature,  History,  United States,  Langley Research Center,  United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration,  Women astronauts,  African American women,  African American women mathematicians,  Women engineers,  African Americans,  Biography,  Women,  Astronauts,  Astronauts, juvenile literature,  Women mathematicians,  African American mathematicians,  Space race,  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 -- Biography,  African Americans -- Biography