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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, .

 

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