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Rise of the Rocket Girls

The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

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Rise of the Rocket Girls

Auteur(s): Nathalia Holt
Narrateur(s): Erin Bennett
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 The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space.

In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.

For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women -- known as "human computers" -- who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been, and the far reaches of space to which we're heading.

"If Hidden Figures has you itching to learn more about the women who worked in the space program, pick up Nathalia Holt's lively, immensely readable history, Rise of the Rocket Girls." -- Entertainment Weekly Amériques Femmes Force armée Mathématique Professionnels et universitaires Science et technologie États-Unis Technologie Militaire Force aérienne Astronomie Système solaire Interstellaire Biographie Mars

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A New York Times bestseller
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
An Amazon Best Book of 2016
An Entertainment Weekly "10 Books You Have to Read in April"
An Elle "8 Books by Women for Bill Gates to Read This Summer"
Goodreads Choice Awards finalist

"Illuminating...these women are vividly depicted at work, at play, in and out of love, raising children--and making history. What a team--and what a story!"
—Gene Seymour, USA Today (3.5 stars/4)
"The women's stories are fun, intense, and endearing, and they give a new perspective on the rise of the space age."—Popular Science
"A marvelous book.... When Neil Armstrong made his 'giant leap for mankind,' there was womankind in the control room."
—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
"Immersive, evocative.... Superbly readable.... Holt's poignant narrative should be required reading."
—Maya Gittelman, Bookreporter
"Holt investigates the fascinating lives and important contributions of these women, who defied the sexist stereotypes of their times to play pivotal roles in sending the first rockets beyond Earth."
—Scientific American
"An intriguing account of the young, female 'human computers' who worked at Caltech's JPL. Be inspired by their work on America's first satellite and other groundbreaking projects, against the social backdrop of the Space Age, slowly changing gender norms, and the dawn of computers."—Estelle Tang, Elle, "5 Books That You Can Read With Your Mom"
"Holt argues that these women's calculations played an under-appreciated part in NASA's towering achievements.... Here, math is dramatic, not mundane. Calculating is a physical, even athletic, act.... Holt depicts the human computers' life stories vividly."
—Jennifer Light, Nature
"Women were obviously just as vital to innovation and progress. Rise of the Rocket Girls proves that by reexamining the space age-specifically, the group of women who redesigned rocket science in the '40s and '50s and made that 'one small step for man' possible in the first place."
—Isabella Biedenharn, Christian Holub, Dana Getz, Entertainment Weekly
"NASA's 'Rocket Girls' are no longer forgotten history. Thanks to a new book, these female pioneers who helped the U.S. win the space race are finally getting their due... Holt documents the lives of these women, who were not only pioneers in their profession, but also in their personal lives."
—Naomi Shavin, Smithsonian
"A must read for any women in tech or interested in technology!"—Girls Who Code
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This is an interesting look into a little-known (though just about to be Hollywood blockbuster) story of female 'computers' working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL). The computers, as they were known, were people who computed the calculations needed for the complex engineering and scientific space missions undertaken by the US Government and later NASA. Starting with rocket design and moving to trajectories, interplanetary communications, orbits, scientific studies of atmospheres, and exploring other planets, these women were the backbone of the success (and fixers of the failures) of those early years of space exploration. More importantly, they were also the first women brought into the space program, the trailblazers for future generations of scientists, engineers and computer programmers who work for NASA today (and the JPL is still the highest employer of women within NASA today). This is their story, laid out by decade, running through a laundry list of space missions and milestones from pre-Sputnik to the Mars rovers.

The book is detailed and interesting, going through both the personal and professional lives of the women involved. Broken into decades, it flows naturally through the space race and into the era of scientific exploration. The downside is that there are just a few too many characters and missions, making it hard to keep track of who is who and who is working on what. This is not helped in the early chapters by the proliferation of nicknames, some giving the ladies men's names, some giving the men ladies' names. The focus on the homelife in the early years also felt like a drag. I wanted to learn about the science they were doing, not the struggles of raising children or wondering if their husbands would like their new dresses. I know, this is the classic story of the struggles of women in second wave feminism and pushing on a closed door (let alone a glass ceiling), but the book was marketed a bit more like a focus on their work not their home lives. Can't have one without the other I suppose, but I was more engaged with the book when the focus was on the science and innovations, and when later in the book the focus became less on the personal than the professional.

In terms of an audio book, the narration wasn't my favourite. The narrator was slow, had a few mis-pronunciations, and seemed to be more excited about the relationships than the science. It could have just been the way the old-time nicknames and 1950's domestic stories come across, but it sounded like an out of date 1950s sitcom.

Overall I'd recommend it to someone interested in the space program or in the role of women in early science institutions. But perhaps get the paperback, not the audio book.

Interesting history, but get the print version

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