Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Back Bay Books, January 2017. Trade Paperback. The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an.....