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Date Published: April 5, 2016 Format: Ebook Source: Own Copy Date Read: June 5-9, 2019 Read for BL-opoly 2019, Science Reading List, and COYER Summer 2019 Blurb: The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laborato...
This is one of my Read Harder 2017 books. Its my choice for task #13, a nonfiction book about technology. I had already read Hidden Figures and some anthologies about women scientists, so I knew we were up to more than most would assume back then. I listened to the audio book version from the librar...
The rocket girls are an elite group of scientists and mathematicians at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from the 1940s to today. In Rise of the Rocket Girls, Nathalia Holt brings a remarkable compilation of their untold stories. The book provides a broad understanding of many aspects of this ...
This book should be required reading in junior high and middle school classes and for anyone who feels that women aren't suited for STEM classes or careers. Not only is it packed with history on the American Space program, it also shows the integral parts played in said history by women. Adult wom...