Categorii: Necatalogate, Neclasificat
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2024
Editura: Little, Brown Book Group
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 432
ISBN: 9780349015200
Dimensiuni: l: 13cm | H: 20cm | 3.2cm | 360g
When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots - a group then made up exclusively of men - had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed too fragile for space flight.
Eventually, though, NASA relented and opened the application process to everyone, regardless of race or gender. From a 1977 candidate pool of 8,000 six elite women were selected - Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon.