Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America's First Women in Space Program

by Margaret A. Weitekamp

Book Overview

Winner, 2005 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, American Astronautical Society

On June 17, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Curiously, unlike every previous milestone in the space race, this event did not spur NASA to catch up by flying an American woman. Though there were suitable candidates-two years earlier, thirteen female pilots recruited by the private Woman in Space program had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801883946
• ISBN13: 9780801883941
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher