Mercury 13 The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight

Name: Mercury 13 The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight
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ISBN: 9780375758935

ISBN-10: 0375758933

ISBN-13: 9780375758935

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Martha Ackmann, Lynn Sherr

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In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys’ club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963; the United States did not follow suit for another twenty years. For the first time, Martha Ackmann tells the story of the dramatic events surrounding these thirteen remarkable women, all crackerjack pilots and patriots who sometimes sacrificed jobs and marriages for a chance to participate in…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English