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-- John F. Kennedy and the great space race[2019]., Juvenile, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HI-INT 629.4 BRI Edition: Young readers' edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "July 20, 1969. It's a day that has earned a spot in history. It's the day that America was the first nation to succeed in sending two astronauts--Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong--to the moon. But what led to this unforgettable event? What were the stakes riding on the Apollo 11's safe landing? In acclaimed author Douglas Brinkley's first young readers' edition, space fans will get the riveting and factual backstory of arguably the most significant achievement of the 20th century."--
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2017., Little Bee Books Inc. Call No: SER 629.4 OHL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Blast BackSummary Note: Get ready to blast back to the past and learn all about the Space Race!
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Cricket Media Call No: MAG JULY/;AUGUST 2019 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Cobblestone
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c2001., Juvenile, Charlesbridge Call No: 629.45 SIY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Chronicles the history of Moon exploration and discusses what achievements may be in the future of space exploration.
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-- Les figures de l'ombre[2017], Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Edition: [English/Spanish/Fr Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
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[2017]., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD 791.43 Hid Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s.
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[2017], Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD 791.43 HID Edition: [English/Spanish/Fr Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
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2016., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: WOMEN'S STUDIES Edition: 1st William Morrow movie tie-in trade pbk. ed. published 2016. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Before John Glenn orbited Earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as 'human computers' used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation..."--Amazon.com.
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2016., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: Gen Sci & Math NF LEE Edition: 1st William Morrow movie tie-in trade pbk. ed. published 2016. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Before John Glenn orbited Earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as 'human computers' used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation..."--Amazon.com.
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[2018]., Juvenile, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 510.9 SHETTERLY Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
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[2016], Adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 510.92 52 0973 Edition: Young readers ed., 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as -human computers- used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African-American women who lived through the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country"--Amazon.com.
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[2016]., Juvenile, Harper Call No: 920 SHE Edition: Young readers' edition, First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Explores the true story of four African American female mathematicians recruited by the U.S. government during World War II to work at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Their job involved being "human computers," using pencils, slide rulers, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would allow rockets and astronauts to be launched out of the atmosphere.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: 510.9 LEE Edition: Young readers' edit Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Learn information about the crucial role that four African-American women played in the space race with this informative book.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: FIC LEE Edition: Young readers' edit Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world -- and whose lives show how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its proudest moments.
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[2016], Pre-adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HI-INT 510.9 LEE Edition: Young readers' edition. First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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, correspondence, and reporting from the era, Hidden Figures recalls America's greatest adventure and NASA's groundbreaking successes through the experiences of five spunky, courageous, intelligent, determined, and patriotic women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, Christine Darden, and Gloria Champine. Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, Hidden Figures interweaves a history of scientific achievement and technological innovation with the intimate stories of five women whose work forever changed the world -- and whose lives show how out of one of America's most painful histories came one of its proudest moments.
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[2016], Juvenile, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 920 SHETTERLY Edition: Young readers' edition, First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Hidden Figures follows the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Daren, who participated in some of the United States' greatest aeronautic successes. These women lived through and persevered against the backdrop of some of the biggest movements ever to shape our nation's history: the Civil Rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the fight for gender equality. it also describes how the Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
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2017., Juvenile, Thorndike Press Call No: 510.92 520973 Edition: Young readers' edition, Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Explores the true story of four African American female mathematicians recruited by the U.S. government during World War II to work at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory. Their job involved being "human computers," using pencils, slide rulers, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would allow rockets and astronauts to be launched out of the atmosphere.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint Call No: 510.92 RISSMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Encounter (Capstone Press)Summary Note: Looks at the African-American women that helped NASA, and America, win the space race. Includes stories about Katherine Johnson, Miriam Mann, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughn, Annie Easley, and Christine Darden.
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[2021]., Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HI-INT 629.40 CHE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "You've heard of the space race, but do you know the whole story? The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War--Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country--and your textbooks probably never told you. Von Braun became an American hero, recognized the world over, while Korolev toiled in obscurity. These two brilliant rocketeers never met, but together they shaped the science of spaceflight and redefined modern warfare. From Stalin's brutal Gulag prisons and Hitler's concentration camps to Cape Canaveral and beyond, their simultaneous quests pushed science--and human ingenuity--to the breaking point. From Amy Cherrix comes the extraordinary hidden story of the space race and the bitter rivalry that launched humankind to the moon"--From the publisher's web site.
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-- Jackie & meBy Gutman, Danc1999., Pre-adolescent, Avon Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process.