Il mio viaggio spaziale. Le mie memorie. L'autobiografia della donna che ci portò sulla Luna
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"Il mio viaggio spaziale" sono le memorie di una donna dalla storia straordinaria che ha navigato su un terreno razziale difficile con la grinta necessaria per realizzare un sogno e ispirare le generazioni future. Morta nel 2020 a 101 anni, vissuta nell'America dell'apartheid, fra discriminazioni di razza e genere, in questa autobiografia Katherine Johnson condivide il suo viaggio personale di bambina prodigio dalle montagne del West Virginia fino alla NASA, dove ha contribuito ai programmi Apollo, Space Shuttle e alle prime missioni su Marte. "Nella mia vita ho contato di tutto. Dai gradini della chiesa, al numero di posate e piatti che ho lavato... Tutto ciò che si poteva contare, l'ho contato." Considerata più affidabile di un computer, fu lei a calcolare come lanciare un veicolo spaziale nell'orbita della Luna.
- ISBN: 8836010296
- Casa Editrice: Hoepli
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- Data di uscita: 05-05-2023
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My Remarkable Journey is the posthumous memoir of Katherine Johnson the NASA mathematician who Taraji Henson portrayed a few years ago in the film Hidden Figures. In her memoir, Katherine writes about her life beginning with her upbringing in West Virginia to her behind the scenes career as a NASA c Leggi tutto
Fascinating story that I LOVED! This lady was smart, but she worked HARD in every opportunity she was given and continued to overcome the obstacles she faced! She lived through some perilous times as a black woman, and seeing the civil rights movement through her eyes was very insightful! She hated
Katherine Johnson is one of the women of color who provided the calculations that enabled the astronauts to make it to the moon. Her work went largely unnoticed and unrecognized until the last few decades when she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Hidden Figures book and subseque Leggi tutto
So interesting learning more about this lady. She was phenomenal. Ever since little her hard working and honesty ethics shaped her into what she became. She passed away two years ago at the age of 101. She put aside fear and insecurity brought on by her color during such a turbulent time. Defied all Leggi tutto
"My daughter was now a mathematician, like me. She worked at NASA, like me. And she had started right out of college. That showed me how important it is for young people to be able to see in the flesh a vision of what they could become. But it also showed me how critical it is for those with influen Leggi tutto
For some reason the audiobook version is just $2.84 on Downpour while it's $15-24 everywhere else. The download from my library was glitchy so I got a better copy since this memoir was too good to give up on. Katherine Johnson's life truly was a remarkable journey, from a West Virginia farm to NASA
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir by Katherine Johnson with Joylette Hylick and Katherine G. Moore is a wonderful and stunning memoir about a woman that I have admired and looked up to for many years. I have known quite a bit about Ms. Johnson for a while now. I have been fascinated about her involveme Leggi tutto
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