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Promised the moon :

1568582757

9781568582757

Promised the moon :

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the untold story of the first women in the space race /

Stephanie Nolen.

New York :

Four Walls Eight Windows,

2003.

xii, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Originally published: Toronto, on: Penguin Canada, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-342) and index.

Stephanie Nolen heard a story about Jerrie Cobb, and she couldn't let it go: Cobb, a world-record-setting pilot and a woman, was recruited in 1959 to take the astronaut tests. At the time, the United States was losing the space race. The Soviets had larger, more powerful rockets, and engineers at NASA thought women -- smaller and lighter -- might be the answer to their problems. Women were also thought to be more tolerant of isolation and pain. Randy Lovelace, chair of NASA's Life Sciences Committee and the doctor who supervised the selection of NASA's Mercury astronauts, and Donald Flickinger, an air force brigadier general and pioneer in aviation medicine, came up with the plan for a woman-in-space program. They tested Jerrie Cobb, and she excelled on the same battery of tests that her male counterparts took. She endured time in an isolation tank and spun through powerful G-forces. Lovelace recruited additional female pilots for the tests, and twelve performed exceptionally.

United States.-- History.

United States.

Feminism.

Sex discrimination against women.

Space race.

Women astronauts-- United States, Biography.

Women in astronautics-- Political aspects.

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Feminism.

Sex discrimination against women.

Space race.

Wettlauf

Women astronauts.

United States.

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