Women in space : 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures
2014,
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, 234 pages :
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3035333
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| Publication information: |
Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, [2014] |
| ISBN: |
9781613748442 (cloth) |
| Language: |
English |
| Record ID: |
3035333 |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Date acquired: |
April 9, 2014
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| More creator details: |
Karen Bush Gibson. |
| Contents note: |
The Mercury 13 : the astronauts who never were -- Cosmonauts : Valentina Tereshkova : first in space -- Svetlana Savitskaya : no apron for her -- Elena Kondakova : long-duration stay -- Yelena Serova : ready and waiting -- American women join the space race -- Sally Ride : first American woman in space -- Judith Resnik : all she ever wanted to do -- Kathryn Sullivan : a walk into history -- Shannon Lucid : a Russian favorite -- Mae Jemison : doctor astronaut -- Ellen Ochoa : career astronaut -- Eileen Collins : space shuttle commander -- Catherine (Cady) Coleman : musical astronaut -- Pamela Melroy : piloting in space -- Peggy Whitson : space station commander -- Sunita Williams : breaking records -- Barbara Morgan : teachers in space -- World astronauts -- Roberta Bondar : living a childhood dream -- Chiaki Mukai : opening doors -- Claudie Haigner : French astronaut and Soyuz commander -- Yi Soyeon : first Korean in space -- Kalpana Chawla : a tragic end -- Liu Yang : a flying knight in space -- Samantha Cristoforetti : military pilot astronaut -- The future of spaceflight. |
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