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"I stole sleep to finish this book and was happy to do so. I admire how Holt gives voice to a group of important (and lesser-known) female scientists who have in the past
been overshadowed by their male counterparts. The domestic and the scientific are elegantly rendered--it is an impressive contribution to American history and I was sad to turn the last page."
TaraShea Nesbit, "bestselling author of" The Wives of Los Alamos"""
"These women helped change the course of American history. Nathalia Holt tells their remarkable story with heart and verve."
Martha Ackmann, "author of "The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight"""
""Rise of the Rocket Girls "reveals the fascinating untold story of the heroic women who made America's space program possible. We owe much to these brilliant female pioneers in science-and to Nathalia Holt for reminding us of their extraordinary contributions."
Cate Lineberry, "author of "The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story of American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines"""
"An inspiring, beautiful book. Nathalia Holt has a gift for capturing the joys and fears of scientists working at the edge of possibility. By profiling the women who learned to keep American rockets flying true, she paints the dawn of the space age with new and vivid colors." Jason Fagone, "author of "Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America"""
"Nathalia Holt has written a gorgeously exciting book about an overlooked group of American women who deserve to have their story known. Inspiring and elegantly-told, this fresh slice of history was impossible to put down." Claire Bidwell Smith, "author of "The Rules of Inheritance"""
"Holt brings her characters to life, tracing them from their hiring as JPL began its career with the Army developing missiles for the Cold War through its conversion to NASA's lead center for planetary exploration. She celebrates their lives, achievements, and service to the nation, as well as their excitement at having front row seats to the earliest voyages of solar system exploration. It's a story whose telling is long overdue. We can be grateful for this enjoyable read."
Dr. Charles Elachi, "Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Vice President of the California Institute of Technology, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science""
"Holt's accessible and heartfelt narrative celebrates the women whose crucial roles in American space science often go unrecognized." Publishers Weekly, "Starred Review""
"Wow! Talk about forgotten history! Those interested in space history will find much to enjoy here, but it is the stories of the women involved, highlighted in sections by decade, that commands attention....and her stellar research is evident on every page. This is an excellent contribution to American history, valuable not only for what it reveals about the space program and gender equality but even more as great reading. Book clubs will be lining up."
Colleen Mondor, "Booklist (Starred Review)""
"Engaging history....a fresh contribution to women's history."
Kirkus"
"The immediacy of Holt's writing makes readers feel as if they're alongside the women during their first view of Jupiter, and beyond." Stephanie Sendaula, "Library Journal (Editors' Spring Pick)
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"This highly readable, entertaining and informative book tells the story of JPL's 'computers, ' the young women who did the calculations now handled by bits of silicon. Holt brings her characters to life, tracing them from their hiring as JPL began its career with the Army developing missiles for the Cold War through its conversion to NASA's lead center for planetary exploration. She celebrates their lives, achievements, and service to the nation, as well as their excitement at having front row seats to the earliest voyages of solar system exploration. It's a story whose telling is long overdue. We can be grateful for this enjoyable read."
Dr. Charles Elachi, "Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Vice President of the California Institute of Technology, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science""
"Holt gives voice to the seldom-recognized female mathematicians and scientists who shaped NASA in its earliest years and beyond." "ALA Magazine""
"Non-fiction tends to be a good reading slump buster for me, and this one seems perfect."
Andi Miller, "Book Riot""
"Holt seamlessly blends the technical aspects of rocket science and mathematics with an engaging narrative, making for an imminently readable and well-researched work." Crystal Goldman, "Library Journal (Starred Review, Editors' Choice Pick)""
"Most of our time in history class is spent learning about men, but 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...and made that 'one small step for man' possible in the first place."
Isabella Biedenharn, Christian Holub, Dana Getz, "Entertainment Weekly""
"Here, math is dramatic, not mundane. Calculating is a physical, even athletic, act....Personal anecdotes...will fascinate general readers and provide valuable primary source materials for future academics." Jennifer Light, "Nature""
"Holt does a fine job balancing the personal stories of these women with the technical discussions of their work ...."Rise of the Rocket Girls" tells a fascinating story of the women who made largely unseen yet essential contributions to the early history of spaceflight."
Jeff Foust, "The Space Review
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Nathalia Holt is the author of "Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV" and a former fellow at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard University. Her writing has appeared in the "Los Angeles Times," "New York Times," TheAtlantic.com, "Slate," Time.com, and "Popular Science." She lives in Boston.
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While the STEM debate rages, Rise of the Rocket Girls shatters the American stereotype that girls can't do numbers. Rocket Girls tells the story of California's JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) from the early days (1940s) when the main goal was to strap a rocket onto a plane to make it go faster, to the present time of space exploration. In 1940, when the guys were shooting rockets out of a dry canyon in southern California, one of them just happened to be married to a girl who was good with numbers. Barbara calculated speed, trajectory, combustion, and other factors for rocket and propellant development, and she set the tone for future projects.
As the work grew, and young JPL expanded, the number of women "computers" (they computed! The term predates the machines) grew. The woman who was in charge of the "computers," Macie Roberts, hired only women for the department, because she wanted to preserve the camaraderie and team spirit so essential to this critical work. Thus, in a benevolent form of gender discrimination, JPL developed a sterling team of brilliant women. Macie often reminded the women, "In this job you need to look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, and work like a dog."
As we learn about the development of rocketry, the author, Nathalia Holt, weaves in cultural developments, such as the invention of pantyhose and the rise of the women's liberation movement. She also includes snippets from the women's personal lives (like the fact that pregnancy meant instant termination--until the program realized it was dead without the women computers, and adapted flexibility to accommodate them).
The women went from pencils and notebook paper to making history. Their calculations put the first man on the moon. Their formulas became code, and they became the first computer programmers. As Holt says, "You can write a lot of programs in five decades. The code that (the women) wrote would continue to work its way into spacecraft, navigation systems, climate studies, and Mars rovers. It would get spliced up and repurposed, pasted into different missions, sent out into space, driven on far-off planets...to (currently orbiting Mars and Saturn spacecraft)...to future Earth-orbiting instruments designed to study our own world."
If you are one of those who believes females aren't geared toward math and science, you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to read this engaging, compelling book. It will tell you of a time when women, using only their minds and pencils, rendered the complex calculations that allowed the United States of America to have a space program at all.
This book was so much fun to read. Yes, it was probably most interesting to geeks like me. The author touched on the physics and math, enough to keep people who understand such things interested, but I don't think it had too much detail for people without that background. I started work in the early 1970s when things had begun to change. And yet, the only job I could find was as a computer programmer, not as a physicist. And when I got my second job, the manager who interviewed me actually asked me if my husband had tenure. I felt that talking about their family lives was crucial to the story - they were leaders in the changes so women could work after they were married and/or had children.
I have read this book twice already. I honestly loved it in so many ways. It's one of those rare, well-written, well-researched books that serves as a great tribute to these women; a tribute to the women pioneers of space flight. Nathalia, thank you for sharing their story!
Loved this book! JPL, or at least the entity that would evolve into JPL, decided that it could and would hire mainly women with mathematical talents to work through the dawn of computing into what would become our space exploration program. It was unheard of at that time (late 1930s and early 40s) for married women, Asian women, African American women, divorced women, single women to be hired as professional 'computers,' as professionals, not typists. This is an exciting, well written book that is a pure pleasure to read. Our Bletchley Park began earlier, lasted longer and provided more and better employment to highly qualified women at a time when this was truly uncommon. This book is a pure pleasure to read and should be the required gift for every young woman who thinks she's weird because she's good at math.
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