NATHALIA HOLT
Praise for Rocket Girls
“Illuminating… these women are vividly depicted at work, at play, in and out of love, raising children — and making history. What a team — and what a story!”
—USA Today (3 1/2 stars out of 4)
“Most of our time in history class is spent learning about men, but women were obviously just as vital to innovation and progress. Rise of the Rocket Girls proves that by reexamining the space age–specifically, the group of women who redesigned rocket science in the ’40s and ’50s and made that 'one small step for man' possible in the first place.”
“[The women’s] stories are fun, intense, and endearing, and they give a new perspective on the rise of the space age.”
“The book acts as a fascinating time capsule, capturing what it was like to be a working woman at a time when only 20 percent of women worked outside the home, or when a woman could be fired simply for being pregnant.”
—Smithsonian Magazine
“In Rise of the Rocket Girls, microbiologist Nathalia Holt reclaims the role of these unheralded women scientists in the field that has enchanted humanity’s collective imagination more powerfully than any other: space exploration…. Holt was riveted by the mystery of how many such unsung women of space-science might be hidden in history, what their lives were like in an era very different from our own, and how those lives shaped so much of what we take for granted today. So began the marvelous obsession that seeded this marvelous book…. Thoroughly wonderful.”
—Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
“A must read for any women in tech or interested in technology!”
—Girls Who Code
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