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Title Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars / Nathalia Holt
Imprint New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016
©2016

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Teknik och medicin  629.4 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition First edition
Descript xiii, 338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 25 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-323) and index
During World War II, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate jet velocities and plot missile trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women -- known as human computers -- who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design and helped bring about America's first ballistic missiles. But they were never interested in developing weapons -- their hearts lay in the dream of space exploration. So when JPL became part of a new agency called NASA, the computers worked on the first probes to the moon, Venus, Mars, and beyond. Later, as digital computers largely replaced human ones, JPL was unique in training and retaining its brilliant pool of women. They became the first computer programmers and engineers, and through their efforts, we launched the ships that showed us the contours of our solar system. Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women who charted a course not only for the future of space exploration but also for the prospects of female scientists
Content Innehåll: January 1958: Launch day -- Up, up, and away -- Headed west -- Rockets rising -- Miss Guided Missile -- Holding back -- Ninety days and ninety minutes -- Moonglow -- Analog overlords -- Planetary pull -- The last queen of outer space -- Men are from Mars -- Look like a girl
Subject Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) -- Biography
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) -- History
1900-talet
1900-1999
Kvinnliga programmerare
Mathematik
Informatik
Kvinnliga matematiker
Rymdfart -- historia
Women mathematicians -- United States -- Biography
Women in computer science -- United States -- Biography
Women computer programmers -- United States -- Biography
Women mathematicians -- United States -- History
Women computer programmers -- United States -- History
Rocketry -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Astronautics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Förenta staterna
Biographies.
Classmark 629.4072/079493
Add Title Rocket girls, the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars
ISBN/ISSN 9780316338929 (hardback)
0316338923 (hardback)
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