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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program; describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1973 Israel, as the Yom Kippur War erupts and a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter makes an unexpected landing, NASA Flight Controller and former U.S. test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is drawn into a high-stakes game of spies, lies and secrets that hold the key to Cold War air and space supremacy.
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A volume explaining the research of NASA scientist Kendra Short for the creation of flexible, printed electronics, including printable space probes"--
Series
Publisher
World Book Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A volume describing the innovations of Robert Hoyt. Hoyt is developing a robotic technology called SpiderFab that builds spacecraft while in orbit around Earth"--
Series
Publisher
World Book, Inc., a Scott Fetzer company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"A volume explaining engineer Masahiro Ono's plan to create a space probe that will be able to hitch itself to an asteroid as the asteroid is traveling through our galaxy"--
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the boundary-breaking mathematician, Katherine Johnson, reveals how her love of mathematics started at a young age led her to a job at NASA where she calculated the course of moon landings and helped save the Apollo 13 mission.
