Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race Author: Margot Lee Shetterly Narrator: Robin Miles Format: Unabridged Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins Language: English Release date: 09-06-16 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited Genres: History, American Summary: One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2016. Soon to be a major motion picture. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts, these 'colored computers' used pencil and paper to write the equations that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Moving from World War II through NASA's golden age, touching on the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the women's rights movement, 'Hidden Figures' interweaves a rich history of mankind's greatest adventure with the intimate stories of five courageous women whose work forever changed the world. Contact: [email protected]

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