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Gibson, Karen Bush.
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Women astronauts -- Biography.
Women in astronautics.
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Gibson, Karen Bush.
Women astronauts -- Biography.
Women in astronautics.
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Women in space : 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures / Karen Bush Gibson.
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Gibson, Karen Bush.
Chicago Review Press, c2014.
Call #:
629
.4500922
G449w
Subjects
Women astronauts -- Biography.
Women in astronautics.
Series
Women of action (Chicago, Ill.)
ISBN:
9781613748442 (hbk.)
1613748442 (hbk.)
9781641603133 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
234 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
Stories of the female pilots, physicists, and doctors who broke the stratospheric ceiling.
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Biographies.
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