Margaret and the Moon
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Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back). She loved studying algebra and geometry and calculus and using math to solve problems in the outside world. Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon! She handwrote code that would allow the spacecraft s computer to solve any problems it might encounter. Apollo 8. Apollo 9. Apollo 10. Apollo 11. Without her code, none of those missions could have been completed.
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Another great scientist picture book biography, great name too. The comic book illustrations are different for me, but neat. The kids loved it and I loved having another female scientist to show them an example.
If my kids were 20 years younger I would read this to them and explain how my job is similar to what hers was. Maybe it would have helped them understand what Dad and Mom did for a living.
Any book showing kids how engineers and especially women engineers are the heroes is a great thing.
My thanks the the author and artist and, of course, to Margaret, one of my heroes.
