Book
New York : HarperCollins
UID:
kobvindex_VBRD-i97800626623780197
Format:
197 S., TB
Edition:
1. Auflage
ISBN:
9780062662378
Content:
From World War II through NASAęs golden age, four African-American Women confidently and courageously stepped into the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (now known as NASA). Their job? To provide the mathematical calculations that would help increase airplane production during wartime and eventually send the United States into space for the very first time. Hidden Figures follows the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, who participated in some of the United Statesęgreatest aeronautic successes. These women lived through and persevered against the backdrop of some of the biggest movements ever shape our nationęs history: the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, and the fight fo gender equality.
Language:
German
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