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Se John Glenn ha orbitato intorno alla terra e Neil Armstrong è stato il primo uomo a camminare sulla Luna, parte del merito va alle scienziate della NASA che negli anni Quaranta, armate di matita, regolo e addizionatrice, elaborarono i calcoli matematici che avrebbero permesso a razzi e astronauti di partire alla conquista dello spazio. Tra loro c'erano anche Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson e Katherine Johnson. Chiamate in servizio durante la seconda guerra mondiale a causa della carenza di personale maschile, quando l'industria aeronautica americana aveva un disperato bisogno di esperti con le giuste competenze, queste tre donne afroamericane lasciarono le proprie vite per trasferirsi in Virginia a lavorare per il Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Il loro contributo, benché le leggi sulla segregazione razziale imponessero loro di non mescolarsi alle colleghe bianche, si rivelò determinante per raggiungere l'obiettivo a cui l'America aspirava: battere l'Unione Sovietica nella corsa allo spazio e riportare una vittoria decisiva nella guerra fredda.
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- Pagine: 398
- Data di uscita: 26-04-2018
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Man I really really wanted to like this book. I enjoy nonfiction and I loved the subject matter the author went after. However, this was just so dry. It felt very clinical as opposed to experiencing life with these women. Also some of the facts that the author was trying to get across were so repeat Leggi tutto
CARMEN: *sighs* *drinks coffee* Okay, I've put off writing this long enough. Let's do this thing. As a child, however, I knew so many African Americans working in science, math, and engineering that I thought that's just what black folks did. THE GOOD: - Feminism! Smash the patriarchy! Sisters are doin' Leggi tutto
The book was as amazing as the movie. I had occasion to meet the author who is the niece of one of these remarkable women. It is unbelievable that we did not know about the contributions of these women until now. This shows how history and historians are extremely selective and do not stray from the Leggi tutto
Wow , Wow , Wow , Wow , Wow , Wow Wow , Wow , Wow , Wow , Wow , Wow THIS BOOK HOLY SHIT * AMAZING *
Loved both the book and the movie. NASA women rock!
I first heard of Katherine Johnson just a few months ago, when I was watching a Sci-Fi time travel series on television. “Timeless” was a lot of hokum, but fun, and interestingly, many of the historical figures in the stories were real, and portrayed as authentically as they could. So when I became Leggi tutto
“Even as a professional in an integrated world, I had been the only black woman in enough drawing rooms and boardrooms to have an inkling of the chutzpah it took for an African American woman in a segregated southern workplace to tell her bosses she was sure her calculations would put a man on the M Leggi tutto
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