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Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race in hardcover and paperback is sure to generate interest in the space program. With buzz building for the movie adaptation starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe, the wait until January 2017 release seems long. Until then, capture your patrons’ interest with these great titles.
The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story by Lily Koppel - Koppel recounts the unbelievable stories of the wives of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts.
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science—And the World by Rachel Swaby - Swaby profiles 52 trailblazing female scientists and their accomplishments.
The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight by Martha Ackmann - The Mercury 13, an extraordinary group of 13 female pilots, were secretly tested to be America’s first female astronauts in 1961.
Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars in hardcover and paperback by Nathalia Holt - This collective biography brings to light the largely unknown story of the “human computers,” the women responsible for calculating complex trajectories and analyzing data by hand for the Jet Propulsion Lab from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist by George D. Morgan - George Morgan brings readers this fascinating biography of his mother Mary Sherman Morgan who played an important role in the launch of Explorer 1.
We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program in hardcover and paperback by Richard Paul and Steven Moss - Paul and Moss explore the experiences and challenges of the first African American men employed by NASA.
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