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The festival and enjoying a day out. The festival continues tomorrow and of course booktv will be live again tomorrow. Youve been listening to the last panel and that was women in science. That is with and natalia holtz. She will be joining us in just a minute to take your calls. Rise of the rocket girls is the name of her book. The women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars. And she joins us now here in the gallagher theater on the campus of the university of arizona. What was the common, the commonality they found among these women . These are women who loved math and science. ...

For calculating the trajectory of the satellite as it left earth. So she is sitting there in the middle of the night on january 31, 1958 with a room full of men and they are all over her shoulder to find out if this mission will be a success. And it is her math done by hand with paper and pencil that lets us know explorer one has made it, america has its first satellite. That was one of the first story she told me. And it was so exciting, so thrilling to be able to hear firsthand what that was like. There are not very many people left that can tell us about these nasa missions, what it was lik...

Last panel and that was women in science. That is with and natalia holtz. She will be joining us in just a minute to take your calls. Rise of the rocket girls is the name of her book. The women who propelled us from missiles to the moon to mars. And she joins us now here in the gallagher theater on the campus of the university of arizona. What was the common, the commonality they found among these women . These are women who loved math and science. But they were coming of age at a time when it was not an option for women. They were women going to school in the 1930s and 40s. They were frequent...

Missiles to the moon to mars. And she joins us now here in the gallagher theater on the campus of the university of arizona. What was the common, the commonality they found among these women . These are women who loved math and science. But they were coming of age at a time when it was not an option for women. They were women going to school in the 1930s and 40s. They were frequently the only women in their math and science classes. I just heard that over and over again. And so you can imagine how it felt for them to come together and be part of this large group of women working at the jet pro...

Missiles to the moon to mars. And she joins us now here in the gallagher theater on the campus of the university of arizona. What was the common, the commonality they found among these women . These are women who loved math and science. But they were coming of age at a time when it was not an option for women. They were women going to school in the 1930s and 40s. They were frequently the only women in their math and science classes. I just heard that over and over again. And so you can imagine how it felt for them to come together and be part of this large group of women working at the jet pro...