The Mercury 13 by Martha Ackmann

The Mercury 13

Martha Ackmann

239 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative inspiring slow-paced
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In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Me...

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