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Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 3/4 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Today, everyone is familiar with Neil Armstrong's famous words as he first set foot on the moon: 'one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind.' He made it look easy, but America's journey to the moon was anything but simple. In 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite, into orbit, America had barely crossed the starting line of the great Space Race. Later that year, our first attempt was such a failure that...
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