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Hidden Figures

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
Oscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay

Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program.

Before 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, these 'colored computers' used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.

Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a rich history of mankind's greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780008555375
Publication date: 26th May 2022
Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
Publisher: William Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 346 pages
Series: Collins Modern Classics
Genres: True stories of heroism, endurance and survival
Biography: science, technology and medicine
Social and cultural history
Space exploration
Impact of science and technology on society
History of science
Aerospace and aviation technology
General and world history
Astronomy, space and time