Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race by Stephanie Nolen

Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women in the Space Race

Stephanie Nolen

356 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative inspiring fast-paced

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In 1959, the doctor who supervised NASA's astronaut selection concluded that women might fare better in space than men. His testing of 25 top female pilots for reactions to isolation, centrifuge, and weightlessness proved him right, and 13 excepti...

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