TY - BOOK ID - 149847056 TI - Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA AU - Edwards, Sue Bradford AU - Harris, Duchess PY - 2017 SN - 1624023118 PB - Minneapolis, Minnesota : Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Women mathematicians KW - African American mathematicians. KW - African American women. KW - Space race. KW - Langley Research Center. KW - United States. KW - United States. KW - History. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149847056 AB - Edwards and Harris discuss the critical contributions black women made to NASA in the 1950s. They performed by hand the calculations that made it possible for the nation's astronauts to fly into space and return safely to Earth. Their efforts made it possible for young black women of subsequent generations to become the mathematicians and astrophysicists of today.-- ER -