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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Nathalia Holt
3.8 AVERAGE
392 reviews for:
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Nathalia Holt
3.8 AVERAGE
The story and people are interesting but I found it a little too dry through long stretches. The math is way over my head but the author managed to explain it enough to understand how an equation was used.
Rise of the Rocket Girls is the true story of the women who have worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab since its inception in the 1940s. Rise of the Rocket Girls is fascinating and captivating. I cannot imagine doing the calculations needed and with only paper and pencil! I admire their dedication, and perseverance to the Jet Propulsion Lab projects, as well as making a path for women to work in the field.
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Who knew?? If you are interested in girl power, women's rights, or just history in general you should read this book. These women were doing amazing work in decades where getting married and having babies were the acceptable aspirations of girls. Seriously, read this book.
Loved it and learned a ton of history about JPL and rocketry in general! It was a great book about brilliant and interesting women and it hit a nice balance between focusing on their lives and on the work they did.
I teach at an aerospace themed magnet school and I have already recommended this book to the english teachers to add to the curriculum and told several students about this book. It is so important to look at the role of women which is so often overlooked.
It is heartbreaking how many of these women had to leave their jobs because of raising a family, not just because they had to leave, but because they just accepted that this was how it had to be.
It is heartbreaking how many of these women had to leave their jobs because of raising a family, not just because they had to leave, but because they just accepted that this was how it had to be.
this was great stuff, guys. the history of the US space program basically started with Caltech/JPL and was built on the minds of the women computers who did the math and had the smarts to get us there and were rarely recognized for their contributions. fantastic biographical history from Nathalia Holt.
Holt does an amazing job of brining this less touched history back to life. She gets so in-depth with the girls that you forget that you're reading non-fiction of what happened 60 years ago.
challenging
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medium-paced