She was the first Black female engineer at NASA, but her astounding story begins well before that. She was a human computer. An African-American woman born in 1921 in Virginia, Jackson overcame many obstacles and setbacks before getting a job at an organization that would later be renamed NASA. Although she never went into space herself, her skills as a mathematician and then as an engineer made it possible for America's astronauts to soar to the heavens, orbit the Earth, and fly to the moon and back. This book describes the life, struggles, and accomplishments of one of astronautics' greatest "hidden figures."