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Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 920 LEECassutt, Michael
Summary: "One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA's history, George W.S. Abbey was called "the Dark Lord," "the Godfather," and "UNO" (unidentified NASA official) by those within NASA. He was said to be secretive, despotic, a Space Age Machiavelli. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight than almost anyone in history. From young pilot and wannabe astronaut to engineer,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 ABBEY, GEORGE CASDe la Rosa, Jeff
Summary: "A volume explaining engineer Masahiro Ono's plan to create a space probe that will be able to hitch itself to an asteroid as the asteroid is traveling through our galaxy"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: World Book, Inc. 2017