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The Six

By Loren Grush

The Six Social Sciences

The Six

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"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"--
Product details
Number of Pages:
432
Release Date:
2023-09-12
Publication Date:
2023-09-12
Publisher:
Scribner Book Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1982172800
ISBN13:
9781982172800
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
593 g
Height:
164 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
35 cm
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