Rocket Girl
The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist
LIKE THE FEMALE SCIENTISTS PORTRAYED IN HIDDEN FIGURES, MARY SHERMAN MORGAN WAS ANOTHER UNSUNG HEROINE OF THE SPACE AGE-NOW HER STORY IS FINALLY TOLD. This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist. Told by her son, it describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to launching America's first satellite and the author's labyrinthine journey to uncover his mother's lost legacy--one buried deep under a lifetime of secrets political, technological, and personal. In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Da…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61614-740-2
- EAN: 9781616147402
- Produktnummer: 15738807
- Verlag: Prometheus
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 325 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'321 KB
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By George D. Morgan - Foreword by Ashley Stroupe, PHD, Phd
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