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Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
222 p.
Language
English
Description
If you’ve seen astronauts returning to Earth you’ll have noticed that they have difficulty standing up because their muscles and bones have weakened. They also have problems with their vision, their sense of smell, and the bottoms of their feet. What happens in space that causes the human body to react and change?
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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...
