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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

Another giant leap

21 Jul 2016
Taken from the July 2016 issue of Physics World

Rise of the Rocket Girls: the Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars
Nathalia Holt
2016 Little, Brown and Company £19.11/$27.00hb 304pp

Black-and-white photo of an analytical chemist, Lois Taylor, using a piece of laboratory equipment to carefully transfer material into a small flask
The women working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in its first years included analytical chemist Lois Taylor. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
When Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the Moon in July 1969, his soon-to-be-legendary words cr

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Lisa Ruth Rand is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, US
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