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2019., Juvenile, Little, Brown and Company Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
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2019., Primary, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: Pic B Johnson Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of Katherine Johnson, NASA mathmatician who helped put the first man on the moon.
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2019., Juvenile, Little, Brown and company Call No: PICTURE NF SLA Edition: First edition. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
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2018., Juvenile, Henry Holt and Company Call No: Biography JOHNSON Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An introduction to the boundary-breaking mathematician, Katherine Johnson, reveals how her love of mathematics started at a young age led her to a job at NASA where she calculated the course of moon landings and helped save the Apollo 13 mission.
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2018., Primary, Henry Holt and Company Call No: B JOH Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The bold story of Katherine Johnson, the extraordinary mathematician who calculated flight path for NASA's first Apollo moon landing.
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2018., Primary, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: B Joh Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "As a child, Katherine Johnson loved to count. She counted the steps on the road, the number of stars in the sky, the number of dishes and spoons she washed in the kitchen sink. Boundless, curious, and excited by calculations, young Katherine longed to know as much as she could about math, about the universe. From Katherine's early beginnings as a gifted student to her heroic accomplishments as a prominent mathematician at NASA, this is the story of a ground-breaking American icon who not only calculated the course of moon landings but, in turn, saved lives"--Publisher.
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-- Story of the Challenger explosionJuvenile Call No: 363 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In a narrative nonfiction format, follows people who experienced the Challenger tragedy and controversy"--
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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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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: WOMEN'S STUDIES Edition: Young readers 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], 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], 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]., Adolescent, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: GENERAL SCIENCE & MATH NF SHE 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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[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., Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MEMOIR NF JOH Edition: 1st Amistad hardcover ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Katherine Johnson shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer and her integral role in the early years of the United States space program.