Overview
In this account of Americaās first women astronauts āGrush skillfully weaves a story that, at its heart, is about desire: not a nationās desire to conquer space, but the longing of six women to reach heights that were forbidden to themā (The New York Times).
When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilotsāa group then made up exclusively of menāhad the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender. From a candidate pool of 8,000 six elite women were selected in 1978āSally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon.
In The Six, acclaimed journalist Loren Grush shows these brilliant and courageous women enduring claustrophobicāand sometimes deeply sexistāmedia attention, undergoing rigorous survival training, and preparing for years to take multi-million-dollar payloads into orbit. Together, the Six helped build the tools that made the space program run. One of the group, Judy Resnik, sacrificed her life when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded at 46,000 feet. Everyone knows of Sally Rideās history-making first space ride, but each of the Six would make their mark. āA spirited group biographyā¦itās hard not to feel awe for these womenā (The Wall Street Journal).
This book title, The Six (The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America's First Women Astronauts), ISBN: 9781982172817, by Loren Grush, published by Scribner (October 22, 2024) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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