Six - The Untold Story of America''s First Women Astronauts

"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. ... Eventually, though, NASA realized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender. From a candidate pool of 8,000, six elite women were selected in 1978: Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon. In [this book], ... 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"--

About the author

Loren Grush is a space reporter for Bloomberg, where she covers everything from NASA, human spaceflight, and the booming commercial space industry to distant stars and planets. The daughter of two NASA engineers, she grew up surrounded by space shuttles and rocket scientists--literally. Prior to joining Bloomberg, she was a senior science reporter for The Verge, where she covered space and hosted her own online video series called Space Craft, a show that examined what it takes to send people into the cosmos. Loren has also published stories in Popular Science, The New York Times, Nautilus magazine, Digital Trends, and more.

Product details

• Authors: Loren Grush, Loren Grush
• Publisher: Scribner USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.09.2023
• EAN: 9781982172800
• ISBN: 978-1-982172-80-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Space Science, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, SCIENCE / Space Science / General