TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grush,Loren
TI  - The six: the untold story of America's first women astronauts 
SN  - 9780349015224 (hbk.) :
AV  - TL789.85.A1 
U1  - 629.45 GRU 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - London
PB  - Virago
KW  - United States
KW  - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women astronauts
KW  - Women in astronautics
KW  - Transport
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Transport technology & trades
KW  - thema
KW  - Space science
N1  - Includes index
N2  - 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. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed too fragile for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA relented and opened the application process to everyone, regardless of race or gender. From a 1977 candidate pool of 8,000 six elite women were selected - Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon. In 'The Six', acclaimed 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
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