jpartlan 's review for:

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt

5.0

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Awesome book. To think rockets, trajectories, gravity sling-shots all may not have happened if it weren't for these women. JPL knew diversity was key to problem solving and allowed these women "engineering positions before they were "allowed" to be engineers. A very insightful book into how the space program and exploration started with this group of women.