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Nathalia Holt reveals the hidden history of the women who powered the Jet Propulsion Laboratory long before digital computers existed. Armed with only pencils and graph paper, these elite mathematicians calculated the complex trajectories that allowed the United States to launch its first satellites and explore the moon. This narrative history follows their lives from the 1940s through the space …

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