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Author : Margaret A. Weitekamp
Release : 2004
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 941/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Right Stuff, Wrong Sex by : Margaret A. Weitekamp
Download or read book Right Stuff, Wrong Sex written by Margaret A. Weitekamp. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: space program and the rise of the women's movement in America.
Author : Margaret A. Weitekamp
Release : 2004-10-18
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 944/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Right Stuff, Wrong Sex by : Margaret A. Weitekamp
Download or read book Right Stuff, Wrong Sex written by Margaret A. Weitekamp. This book was released on 2004-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Review
Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Release : 2011-09-27
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 097/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Almost Astronauts by : Tanya Lee Stone
Download or read book Almost Astronauts written by Tanya Lee Stone. This book was released on 2011-09-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow. What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape -- any checklist would include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was another unspoken rule: you had to be a man. Here is the tale of thirteen women who proved that they were not only as tough as the toughest man but also brave enough to challenge the government. They were blocked by prejudice, jealousy, and the scrawled note of one of the most powerful men in Washington. But even though the Mercury 13 women did not make it into space, they did not lose, for their example empowered young women to take their place in the sky, piloting jets and commanding space capsules. ALMOST ASTRONAUTS is the story of thirteen true pioneers of the space age. Back matter includes an author’s note, an appendix, further reading, a bibliography, sources, source notes, and an index.
Author : Bernice Trimble Steadman
Release : 2001
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tethered Mercury by : Bernice Trimble Steadman
Download or read book Tethered Mercury written by Bernice Trimble Steadman. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Neufeld
Release : 2013-11-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 257/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spacefarers by : Michael J. Neufeld
Download or read book Spacefarers written by Michael J. Neufeld. This book was released on 2013-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent 50th anniversaries of the first human spaceflights by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the 30th anniversary of the launching of the first U.S. Space Shuttle mission, have again brought to mind the pioneering accomplishments of the first quarter century of humans in space. Historians, political scientists and others have extensively examined the technical, programmatic and political history of human spaceflight from the 1960s to the 1980s, but work is only beginning on the social and cultural history of the pioneering era. One rapidly developing area of recent scholarship is the examination of the images of spacefarers in the media, government propaganda and popular culture. How was space travel imagined in the visual media on the cusp of human spaceflights? How were astronauts and cosmonauts represented in official and quasi-official media portraits? And how were those images reproduced and transformed by in the imagination of film-makers, movie producers, popular writers, and novelists? Spacefarers addresses these questions with nine contributions from scholars in the field of aerospace history, Russian and American history, and English literature. These essays are preceded by an introduction by the editor, who discusses their place in the historiography of spaceflight and social and cultural history. The book will have potential appeal to a wide variety of scholars in history, literature and the social sciences and will include a number of striking visual images.
