Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program by Margaret A. Weitekamp

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program

Margaret A. Weitekamp

256 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history science informative inspiring slow-paced
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On June 17, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Curiously, unlike every previous milestone in the "space race," this event did not spur NASA to catch up by flying an American woman. Though there were suitab...

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