Title: Rise of the Rocket Girls Pdf The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
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 elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.
For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women--known as "human computers"--who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been, and the far reaches of space to which we're heading.
Girls Who Code - the Women Who Built America's Space Program While the STEM debate rages, Rise of the Rocket Girls shatters the American stereotype that girls can't do numbers. Rocket Girls tells the story of California's JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) from the early days (1940s) when the main goal was to strap a rocket onto a plane to make it go faster, to the present time of space exploration. In 1940, when the guys were shooting rockets out of a dry canyon in southern California, one of them just happened to be married to a girl who was good with numbers. Barbara calculated speed, trajectory, combustion, and other factors for rocket and propellant development, and she set the tone for future projects.As the work grew, and young JPL expanded, the number of women "computers" (they computed! The term predates the machines) grew. The woman who was in charge of the "computers," Macie Roberts, hired only women for the department, because she wanted to preserve the camaraderie and team spirit so essential to this critical work. Thus, in a benevolent form of gender discrimination, JPL developed a sterling team of brilliant women. Macie often reminded the women, "In this job you need to look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, and work like a dog."As we learn about the development of rocketry, the author, Nathalia Holt, weaves in cultural developments, such as the invention of pantyhose and the rise of the women's liberation movement. She also includes snippets from the women's personal lives (like the fact that pregnancy meant instant termination--until the program realized it was dead without the women computers, and adapted flexibility to accommodate them).The women went from pencils and notebook paper to making history. Their calculations put the first man on the moon. Their formulas became code, and they became the first computer programmers. As Holt says, "You can write a lot of programs in five decades. The code that (the women) wrote would continue to work its way into spacecraft, navigation systems, climate studies, and Mars rovers. It would get spliced up and repurposed, pasted into different missions, sent out into space, driven on far-off planets...to (currently orbiting Mars and Saturn spacecraft)...to future Earth-orbiting instruments designed to study our own world."If you are one of those who believes females aren't geared toward math and science, you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to read this engaging, compelling book. It will tell you of a time when women, using only their minds and pencils, rendered the complex calculations that allowed the United States of America to have a space program at all.Rocket Girl As a former 'Rocket Girl' (General Dynamics/Convair Launch Vehicle Engineering), I found this book fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable. By degree a mechanical engineer, I wrote and ran computer code (on punch cards) to determine heat loads on the rockets and their payloads. I remember the engineering challenges of correctly modeling laminar and turbulent air flows over payload cover structures and how much I enjoyed the work. It was a short career - I was tempted away by a High Temperature Gas Cooled Nuclear Reactor - but my most vivid memories will always be my first job out of college on the Atlas (work horse of the century) and Centaur launch vehicles.A TEN STAR BOOK I would give it 10 stars if I could. This is a FANTASTIC book - Very readable and enjoyable - I have no doubt if it were not for these ladies, we'd still be thinking the world was flat! Anyone with a student in a STEM program should get this book for them - to realize that there was life before "electronic computers". I have purchased copies for family and recommended it to bunches of people. You will be astonished when you read it, then you'll want to read it again.
Escape from the Ordinary pdf
#Apollo11 pdf
#Apollo13 pdf
Hygge pdf
Women Who Launch pdf
Accursed Women pdf
The Little Book of Stoicism pdf
Tags: B013CATQPY pdf,Rise of the Rocket Girls pdf,The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars pdf,ebook,Nathalia Holt,Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars,Little, Brown and Company,Aeronautics & Astronautics,Science & Technology,AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING (SPECIFIC ASPECTS),Astronautics - United States - History,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women,Biography,Biography & Autobiography/Science & Technology,Biography & Autobiography/Women,GENERAL,General Adult,HISTORY / Military / Aviation,HISTORY / Social History,HISTORY / United States / 21st Century,Hidden Figures; NASA; feminism; jet propulsion laboratory; JPL; Rocket Girls; human computers; early computing; history of computing; midcentury computing; space race; female mathematicians; STEM; women in STEM; aeronautics; women in aeronautics,Hidden Figures; NASA; feminism; jet propulsion laboratory; JPL; Rocket Girls; human computers; early computing; history of computing; midcentury computing; space race; female mathematicians; STEM; women in STEM; aeronautics; women in aeronautics,History,History & Philosophy,History/Women,Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.) - History,Mathematics/History & Philosophy,Non-Fiction,Rocketry - United States - History,SCIENCE / History,Science,Science/Math,Science/Mathematics,TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics,Technology & Engineering,Technology & Engineering/Aeronautics & Astronautics,Technology & Engineering/History,United States,WOMEN IN SCIENCE,Women,Women computer programmers;United States;Biography.,Women in computer science;United States;Biography.,Women mathematicians - United States,Women mathematicians - United States - History,Women mathematicians;United States;Biography.,Women's Studies,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women,Biography & Autobiography/Science & Technology,Biography & Autobiography/Women,HISTORY / Military / Aviation,HISTORY / Social History,HISTORY / United States / 21st Century,History,History & Philosophy,History/Women,Mathematics/History & Philosophy,SCIENCE / History,TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Aeronautics & Astronautics,Technology & Engineering/Aeronautics & Astronautics,Technology & Engineering/History,Women,Science,Aeronautical Engineering (Specific Aspects),Women In Science,Technology & Engineering,Science/Mathematics
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.