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The Six - The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space (Hardcover): Loren Grush

The Six - The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space (Hardcover)

Loren Grush

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The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts 'Suspenseful, meticulously observed... encompasses the talent, ambition and perseverance of America's first female astronauts' Margot Lee Shetterly, bestselling author of Hidden Figures When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots - a group then made up exclusively of men - had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed too fragile for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA relented and opened the application process to everyone, regardless of race or gender. From a 1977 candidate pool of 8,000 six elite women were selected - Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon. In The Six, acclaimed journalist Loren Grush shows these brilliant and courageous women enduring claustrophobic - and sometimes deeply sexist - media attention, undergoing rigorous survival training, and preparing for years to take multi-million-dollar payloads into orbit. Together, the Six helped build the tools that made the space program run. One of the group, Judy Resnik, sacrificed her life when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded at 46,000 feet. Everyone knows of Sally Ride's history-making first space ride, but each of the Six would make their mark.

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Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2023
Authors: Loren Grush
Dimensions: 240 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 978-0-349-01522-4
Categories: Books > Professional & Technical > Other technologies > Space science > General
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LSN: 0-349-01522-8
Barcode: 9780349015224

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