Rocket Girl
The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist

Although this was an incredibly interesting topic, I found the way in which this book was written to be very jarring. The author frequently mentions how difficult it was to find out about his mother's life and the part she played in the space program, so to read scenes and chapters where he writes w......more

I have read a number of books in the past year about women and minorities in the space field. In June of 2013 a NASA astronaut class was, for the first time, 50 percent women. I read a book a few years ago about Sally Ride on the 30th anniversary of her flight. Also, read of the 50th anniversary of......more

I really enjoyed this book. It gave great insight (admittedly, sometimes necessarily creatively embellished) about not only a woman working in the male-dominated world of engineering in the 1950's, but it was also: an eye-opening account of the U.S. at the beginning of the Cold War and the nascent s......more

As children, we all think we know everything that matters about our parents. George Morgan and his sisters knew almost nothing about their mother: her family, her childhood, what she did before them were all closed for discussion. Most of the adults they knew worked at Rocketdyne with her and their......more