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The Six
- The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space
Af: Loren Grush
Engelsk Hardback
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The Six

- The Untold Story of America's First Women in Space
Af: Loren Grush
Engelsk Hardback
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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
432
ISBN-13:
9780349015224
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
0349015228
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Udg. Dato:
5 sep 2023
Længde:
38mm
Bredde:
242mm
Højde:
166mm
Forlag:
Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato:
5 sep 2023
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