Rise of the Rocket Girls

Enjoyable and informative. I learned a lot about JPL and more abt the women of that time period who worked as computers. It is similar in topic to Hidden Figures. Over time the computers became computer programmers.. Halving learned programming myself near the same time, it was fun to recall those days.
These people made major contributions to some of the big accomplishments of the last 50 years. Another related book is “The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II” which is about the building of the Oak Ridge facility as part of the Manhattan project. If you have heard of Ranger, Surveyor, Viking, Voyager, Pioneer, Mariner, Curiosity. Gallileo, Cassini, Juno then you will want to know more about the women that made them possible