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Six

The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space

Autor: LOREN GRUSH
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Little, Brown Book Group
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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144.50 lei
The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts'Lifts the curtain on the moment when N...

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Autor
LOREN GRUSH
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2023
Pagini
352
EAN
9780349015224
ISBN
0349015228
Enbook ID
33387001
Editura
Little, Brown Book Group
Greutate
41
Dimensiuni
156 x 240

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The remarkable true story of America's first women astronauts



'Lifts the curtain on the moment when Neil Armstrong's "one small step for man" expanded to encompass the talent, ambition and perseverance of America's first female astronauts' MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY, bestselling author of Hidden Figures

'Strap yourself in for a thrilling ride with genuine American heroes - six women who proved you don't need the right plumbing to have the right stuff!' LYNN SHERR, author of Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space

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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