Rocket Girls and the Advent of the Space Age

Title (Dublin Core): Rocket Girls and the Advent of the Space Age
Description (Dublin Core): The "human computers" at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) campus. Among them is Janez Lawson, the first African American hired into a technical position at JPL. The work of these women helped launch the first U.S. satellite, Explorer 1.
Creator (Dublin Core): NASA; JPL-Caltech
Date (Dublin Core): 1953
Subject (Dublin Core): Mental calculators; Women mathematicians
Type (Dublin Core): Photographs
Format (Dublin Core): JPEG
Spatial Coverage (Dublin Core): Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Relation (Dublin Core): NASA History