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    Summary and Analysis of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars: Based on the Book by Nathalia Holt
    Summary and Analysis of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars: Based on the Book by Nathalia Holt
    Summary and Analysis of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars: Based on the Book by Nathalia Holt
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    Summary and Analysis of Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars: Based on the Book by Nathalia Holt

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Rise of the Rocket Girls tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Nathalia Holt’s book.
     
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    About Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt:
     
    When the Jet Propulsion Laboratory first began researching rocket science and the possibilities within space exploration in the middle of the twentieth century, they hired a hyper intelligent group of female mathematicians to work with their staff of engineers.
     
    In Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, Nathalia Holt examines four decades of the JPL’s major accomplishments from interviews and research of these groundbreaking women who were recruited to be “human computers,” Including, from this team of unsung heroes, Barbara Paulson, Helen Ling, Sue Finley, and Sylvia Lundy.
     
    As the JPL’s projects evolved from developing missiles and satellites to executing moon landings and planetary exploration projects, the women’s roles grew too, becoming the team responsible for launching America into Space—and they did it all while balancing marriage and children, too.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 2, 2017
    ISBN9781504046374
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      Summary and Analysis of Rise of the Rocket Girls - Worth Books

      Contents

      Context

      Overview

      Summary

      Timeline

      Cast of Characters

      Direct Quotes and Analysis

      Trivia

      What’s That Word?

      Critical Response

      About Nathalia Holt

      For Your Information

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Context

      In March 2017, the NASA Authorization Act was renewed for the first time since 2010, guaranteeing the association’s ability to continue exploring space under the guidance of the US government. The act’s renewal comes in the midst of a period of social upheaval in the United States, particularly when it comes to gender politics. Events such as the Women’s March on Washington have mobilized millions of people to stand up for women’s rights and gender equality and to call out industries and professions that are failing to cultivate a diverse, equally paid workforce.

      NASA is not immune to gender issues. While most well-known astronauts and rocket scientists are men, women have served as the backbone of America’s space agency since long before digital computers were capable of doing advanced mathematical calculations. Now, books and films such as Hidden Figures, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and grossed more than $200 million, are starting to call attention to the female computers who have played important roles in missile and rocket launches since the 1940s.

      In Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars, author Nathalia Holt tells the story of the women who worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a NASA lab founded in Pasadena, California, in 1936. Holt found that JPL had been a sort of hub for young women who excelled in math and science but had little hope of finding positions outside of teaching, nursing, or secretorial work. Early trajectory calculators, such as Macie Roberts and Helen Ling, sought to hire other female employees, nurturing the careers of women would go on to become some of the field’s first computer programmers and female engineers and make crucial contributions to projects including the Deep Space Network, Voyager, and Mars missions.

      Rise of the Rocket Girls is an engaging account that details the accomplishments of JPL’s female employees, finally giving the women the recognition that they deserve.

      Overview

      In the 1930s, rocketry still walked a fine line between being a field of scientific study and being thought of as science fiction. Members of groups such as the Suicide Squad, a collection of researchers who performed explosive and damaging experiments on Caltech’s campus, risked being written off as mad scientists or just plain unprofessional. Over the next three decades, however, the scientific community relented as rocket scientists proved the real possibilities of their work time and again. But that community remained much more resistant to another, larger group: women.

      Generally limited to the career options of secretary, teacher, nurse, or housewife, women were rarely granted positions in scientific fields—or even allowed to pursue the education that would qualify them for such positions. Perhaps it was this shared outsider status that brought women with gifts for math

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