A truly inspiring story about women who paved the way of scientific progress when there were so many barriers put in front of them by the world already; their education, their race, their gender. I loved learning about all of the women in this book and how women, and in particular, women of colour, were such core members of NACA's team as it eventually built itself into NASA.

It's infuriating that so many of these women were lost or forgotten a bit in history due to the true nature of many women which is to put your head down, and just work your best while forgetting to speak up and speak out about your true talents and progress. And also the assumption of men that the women shouldn't have gotten any credit for all the amazing projects they helped build with their amazing minds.

I would have liked more focus on the Mercury and Apollo era as I felt by the time we got to this point in history, the actual space exploration was a bit skipped over and didn't seem to get as much emphasis as the build up to NASA in the 40s and 50s.

I'm also not someone blessed with a mathematical brain, at all, so there were some science-y bits in this book that I definitely did not understand at all.