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