Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space / Margot Lee Shetterly.
- 作者： Shetterly, Margot Lee author.
- 其他作者：
- 其他題名：
- Untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hidden figures.
- 出版： New York, NY : Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers [2016].
- 主題： United States , Officials and employees , Women mathematicians , African American women , African American mathematicians , Space race , United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Officials and employees--Biography. , Women mathematicians--United States--Biography , African American women--Biography , African American mathematicians--Biography , Space race
- 版本：First edition.
- ISBN： 9780062662385 (hardback): NT$452 、 0062662384 (hardback) 、 9780062662378 (paperback) 、 0062662376 (paperback) 、 9780606396233 (Turtleback) 、 0606396233 (Turtleback)
- 書目註：Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218) and index.
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讀者標籤：
- 系統號： 000826015 | 機讀編目格式
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The uplifting, amazing true story—a New York Times bestseller This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly’s acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It is the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Now a major 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 on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would 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 through the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
摘要註
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 fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these "computers," personal recollections, interviews with NASA executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world -- and whose lives show how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its proudest moments.
內容註
Setting the scene -- A door opens -- Mobilization -- A new Beginning -- The double V -- The "colored" computers -- War birds -- The duration -- Breaking barriers -- No limits -- The area rule -- An exceptional mind -- Turbulence -- Progress -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Writing the textbook on space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- One small step.