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After watching "Hidden Figures" and liking it but wanting more, I found this book. And I really enjoyed it. I loved reading about their experiences in all aspects of their lives - this was a different time (a "Miss Guided Missile Pageant" at work??!!) with different expectations and they were bucking the system not only by working jobs that had traditionally been considered jobs for men, but working after having children, being visionaries and in general being independent. I was touched by the friendships they formed with the other women they worked with, their struggles to balance their professional lives and their personal lives - this really rang true to me. Being a woman that works in science I've been searching for a girl power STEM book that doesn't minimize the contribution of women but also celebrates them being women... I've tried reading a few more contemporary books ("Lab Girl" being one) and I can't relate to those women at all, but I found this book to resonate to what I know and feel from my own personal experience (the past isn't so different from the present!). We as a country owe these woman for their contributions to our national defense efforts as well as space exploration, but we as women need to honor them for paving the way for us today just by doing what they loved.