Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures by Karen Bush Gibson

Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures

Women of Action

Karen Bush Gibson

240 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative inspiring slow-paced
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When Valentina Tereshkova blasted off aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she became the first woman to rocket into space. It would be nineteen years before another woman got a chance--cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982--followed by American astr...

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