Rise of the Rocket Girls

Meet the Rocket Girls, and read the unknown story of the women engineers and scientists who helped to build NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In the 1940s and 50s, this elite team of mathematicians plotted trajectories and calculated velocities to carry America's first rockets into space. To fill this role, the American government selected not male university graduates, but young women who would work with pencil and paper. These 'human computers' broke the glass ceilings of both science and gender, and this real-life history by Nathalia Holt makes an inspirational read for women and girls -- and guys -- of all ages.