A well written story like narrative of unknown historical events.

I am NOT a natural math or science female, but was certainly inspired by the lives of all the women behind the male engineers who put JPL & USA on the map for the exploration of space. The author was able to successfully entertwine the little known stories of these admirable, glass-ceiling breaking, risk-taking, brave women women with a very readable & comprehensive history of America's race to space. She explains all the scientific terms like trajectory, thrust, slide-rules, trigonometry, etc. very successfully for someone like me who needs the Engineering & Mathematical terminology for Dummies, 101 version. I was born & grew up in Glendale/Pasadena/Eagle Rock/Arroyo Seco neighborhoods of So. CAL in the 1950s to 1980s & gained a lot of insight into this little known group of brilliant women who are a good parallel to the current Academy Award winning film Hidden Figures to what all the brilliant-minded Black American accomplished for American men @ Langley AF Base.

I do not care how rockets are built.