Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781606867969 (1606867962)
Publish date: February 24th 2009
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Pages no: 133
Edition language: English
Stone tells the fascinating, dramatic true story of the “Mercury 13,” a group of women aviators who proved to be as courageous, intelligent, and fit as any man, but were nonetheless barred from NASA’s astronaut program because of their gender. When NASA was created in 1958 and the astronaut training...