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Age Range
4 - 8
Genre
biography
Copyright Year
2025-02-11
Page Count
40
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Grade Level
Pre-K - 3rd
ISBN
9780593902196
Lexile
630
Themes
space exploration
women in science

Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing

Written by Dean Robbins and Illustrated by Lucy Knisley

A true story from one of the Women of NASA! Margaret Hamilton loved numbers as a young girl. She knew how many miles it was to the moon (and how many back). She loved studying algebra and geometry and calculus and using math to solve problems in the outside world.

Soon math led her to MIT and then to helping NASA put a man on the moon! She handwrote code that would allow the spacecraft’s computer to solve any problems it might encounter. Apollo 8. Apollo 9. Apollo 10. Apollo 11: Without her code, none of those missions could have been completed.

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Age Range
4 - 8
Genre
biography
Copyright Year
2025-02-11
Page Count
40
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Grade Level
Pre-K - 3rd
ISBN
9780593902196
Lexile
630
Themes
space exploration
women in science
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