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Rise of the Rocket Girls
by Nathalia Holt
The women computers of JPL who calculated trajectories from the 1940s to the space age. Overlooked history, warmly told.
Read it if…
you want the women behind rocketry.
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Skip it if…
you want Hidden Figures; this is JPL's version.
Try instead: The Glass Universe →
Three things you will actually use
- Computation was women's work.
- Credit arrives late.
- Persist in the margins.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the early rockets.
Our verdict
JPL's women.
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