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The Mercury 13 : The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight
The Mercury 13 The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight
Author: Martha Ackmann
In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys’ club at NASA and on C...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375507441
ISBN-10: 0375507442
Publication Date: 5/2003
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Random House
Book Type: Hardcover
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