Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women who Helped win the Space Race [Audiobook] download free by Margot Lee Shetterly
- Listen audiobook: Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women who Helped win the Space Race
- Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
- Release date: 2016/4/11
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780062363602
- Rating: 7.57 of 10
- Votes: 410
- Review by: Xiomara Chapin
- Review rating: 7.58 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/27
- Duration: 5H5M12S in 256 kbps (80 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-02
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WAV, WMA, AAC, MPC, MP3, MPEG4 (compression ZIP, TGZ, RAR, LZO)
- Total pages original book: 400
- Includes a PDF summary of 38 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 27M41S (7.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Golden Globe-winner Taraji P. Henson and Academy Award-winners Octavia Spencer and Kevin Costner Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow South and 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-and whose contributions have been unheralded, until now. 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 rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's fledgling aeronautics industry, and helped write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.Drawing on the oral histories of scores of these 'computers,' personal recollections, interviews with NASA executives and engineers, archival documents, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. 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 scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world-and whose lives show how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its proudest moments.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Biography: General, Aerospace & Aviation Technology, Black & Asian Studies, History Of Mathematics, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering, 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000, History Of The Americas, Gender Studies: Women, History Of Engineering & Technology, Space Science
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 14.35 USD
- Dimensions: 135x203x23mm
- Weight: 294g
- Printed by: William Morrow Paperbacks
- Published in: New York, United States
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