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This was a fun ride and taught me so much that I had never considered before. (Wow, I know, a book opening your mind, how original.)
I actually found myself getting a little choked up, thinking about all of the women who were responsible for basically creating our space program. Without their hand computing, man never would have made it to the moon, let alone even put a satellite into orbit. Just imagining these women in a room frantically calculating in their paper notebooks to figure out if the data coming in from the rockets and probes would mean that their projects would clear Earth's atmosphere. What an exciting job.
And how awesome that there was such camaraderie between the women, even as they propped up the male engineers next door and became experts in early programming. Also an example that some women truly are fulfilled by their careers, whether they have children or not. Definitely a great read if you want some light, girl-power non-fiction.
I actually found myself getting a little choked up, thinking about all of the women who were responsible for basically creating our space program. Without their hand computing, man never would have made it to the moon, let alone even put a satellite into orbit. Just imagining these women in a room frantically calculating in their paper notebooks to figure out if the data coming in from the rockets and probes would mean that their projects would clear Earth's atmosphere. What an exciting job.
And how awesome that there was such camaraderie between the women, even as they propped up the male engineers next door and became experts in early programming. Also an example that some women truly are fulfilled by their careers, whether they have children or not. Definitely a great read if you want some light, girl-power non-fiction.