Reviews

To Fly Among the Stars: A True Story of the Women and Men Who Tested to Become America's First Astronauts by Rebecca Siegel

amacina's review against another edition

3.0

3.75

shayemiller's review

4.0

I was very surprised at how engaging this book was -- all about America's space program and the aviators who set its course. There's amazing focus on how difficult it was for women to be involved with NASA and so many personal details about various people who came in and out of the picture over the years. Also, I didn't realize this until after I finished the book, but Mercury 13's story is told in a recent Netflix documentary and a play based on Cobb's life, "They Promised Her the Moon." So I hope to check that out very soon!

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ashleyreads88's review

In the time period in which this book is about, women were not supposed to be pilots, successful pilots at that with some having logged more flight hours in their flight logs than men. I wish this book focused more on the women from Dr. Lovelace's Lovelace’s Woman in Space Program rather than the men. I loved reading about the women and was heartbroken when Lovelace's program was canceled. Lovelace's Woman in Space program showed that women could do what the men did and sometimes even better than them. I felt that this book did a great job of highlighting the unfair sexism that the 13 women endured.