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African American mathematicians African American women African American women Biography Juvenile literature Outer space Space flight to the moon Space race Space race Juvenile literature United States Women mathematicians Women mathematicians United States Biography Juvenile literatureHarris, Duchess
Summary: When Neil Armstrong set foot upon the moon in 1969, it was the end result of an effort that involved several years, billions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of people. The First Moon Landing examines this historic event from multiple perspectives, including those of Armstrong himself, computer programmer Margaret Hamilton, and engineer Tom Kelly. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.45 HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J629.454 HARShetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space ShetterlyCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHEShetterly, Margot Lee
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHESlader, Erik
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD 692.4 Slader 2018Calkhoven, Laurie
Summary: "Discover the thrilling side of the history of the space race in this fact-tastic, nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series about the secrets of American History! Did you know that you can't bring a sandwich on a spaceship? Or that a group of people who had lost their hearing played an important role in the race to send astronauts to the moon? Find out about those true stories and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2018
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Summary: Chronicles the history of space exploration, from the earliest rocket launches to possible future Mars colonies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.4 CRUFabiny, Sarah
Summary: "Find out all about NASA in this out-of-this-world addition to the What Was? series. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA, began in 1958. With its creation, the United States hoped to ensure it won the space race againstthe Soviet Union. Author Sarah Fabiny describes the origins of NASA, the launching of the Apollo program that landed the first human on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 629.4 FABCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Space FabinyRissman, Rebecca
Summary: Includes stories about Katherine Johnson, Miriam Mann, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughn, Annie Easley, and Christine Darden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 RISSlader, Erik
Summary: A humourous look at the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in space exploration known as the Space Race and the innumerable failures that paved the way to the first lunar landing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 692.4 SLAStone, Robert
Summary: In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed the nation spend twenty billion dollars to land a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. Stone and Andres reveal for the first time the unknown stories of the individuals whose imaginative work across several decades culminated in America's momentous achievement. They show that the moon landing-- now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary-- grew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 STOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 629.45 STOLaunius, Roger D.
Summary: In Apollo's Legacy, space historian Roger D. Launius explores the many-faceted stories told about the meaning of the Apollo program and how it forever altered American society. The Apollo missions marked the first time human beings left Earth's orbit and visited another world, and thus they loom large in our collective memory. Many have detailed the exciting events of the Apollo program, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 LAUSummary: Chasing the moon reimagines the race to the moon for a new generation, upending much of the mythology surrounding the effort. The series recasts the Space Age as scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama. Utilizing overlooked and lost archival material, the film features a cast of characters who played key roles in these historic events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CHASummary: When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped on the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughters' initials in the lunar dust. Only now, over forty years later, is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love and loss. Cernan's burning ambition carried him from a quiet Chicago suburb to the spectacular and hazardous environment of space and ultimately,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LASSummary: The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural, and social liberation. Looking through the lens of television, this production weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960s in America, sketching a portrait of this remarkable decade that is both entertaining and illuminating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2015
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SIXNolen, Stephanie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Four Walls Eight Windows 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 NOLShetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 LEECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Black ShetterlyWeitekamp, Margaret A.
Contents: "Going to town for the men of science": Randy Lovelace and Jackie Cochran -- "This Buck Rogers nonsense": aviation and aerospace medicine -- WASPs, whirly-girls, and ninety-nines: female pilots and postwar women's aviation -- "Should a girl be first in space?": Betty Skelton, Ruth Nichols, and Jerrie Cobb -- "Initial examinations for female astronaut candidates": Lovelace's woman in space...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.45 WEID'Antonio, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007