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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
At a time when careers for college educated women included only: teacher, nurse, secretary or mother, these women were human computers. The subject is very interesting, but I felt the book took on too much and would have been far better with a narrower focus.
oooof, we don't go into bizarre detail over male engineer's dating life. wth? i'm not good at skimming or i would finish this begrudgingly. i usually complete every book but as a Geologist with a Masters of Science it's soooooooooooo grating. i can't. it's horrid.
The writing is not always smooth or flowing, but the pacing of the timeline and day-to-day in the lives of these great women was well done.
Very detailed account of the women at JPL that helped launch the space program there. If i you liked Hidden Figures, you will like this. It goes into a lot of detail on what the women had to give up to accomplish what they did, but it also shows you how integrated they were into the teams and how integral they were to the missions they worked on
I'm pretty bummed that I didn't like this book. The narrative was too strange, it was like Nathalia Holt wanted us to emotionally connect with the narrative yet stylistically it was hard to do so. The book felt a little all over the place. Like I really wanted to delve into the lives of the women but felt like I couldn't do that and I learned very little. Bummer. But I hope that's just me.
I really enjoyed this book about the women computers at JPL. The story is well written and sprinkled with personal stories about the women and their family life as well as the meat of the book, their work on the early space program. I loved learning more about the space program (around this time last year I finished hidden figures) and the work that went into getting the whole program up and functional. I loved the grit and perseverance of these women and everyone at JPL who had a vision for the what space exploration could be and worked to achieve. I definitely recommend this book.
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Inspiring but doesn't always address the inequalities of the time as much as I'd like. (I've been reading a lot of more direct feminist writing recently, so I don't know that the disappointment would stand out the same if I hadn't.)
I could not finish this book. I read 1/3 then skimmed the rest. Has strong potential to be an eye-opener for women's role in NASA, but missed the mark, mostly a general history of the JPL, and the men that formed it.
OMGGGGG. Ladies in Space! This book was a great look at the history of the space program and women's roles within in. It did a great job of touching on women's struggles to balance work and family but also their incredible achievements in the world of science and space exploration.