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Pages: 189
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Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-06-03 - Publisher: Random House

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For readers of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight. In 1961,
Almost Astronauts
Language: en
Pages: 144
Authors: Tanya Lee Stone
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-27 - Publisher: Candlewick Press

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They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow. What does it take to be an astrona
Fighting for Space
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Amy Shira Teitel
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-18 - Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

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Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space
Failure Is Not an Option
Language: en
Pages: 427
Authors: Gene Kranz
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-23 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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The author, flight director in NASA's Mission Control, tells of the challenges in space flight from the very early years to the current time and of "his own bol
The Right Stuff
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Tom Wolfe
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-03-04 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Tom Wolfe at his very best" (The New York Times Book Review), The Right Stuff is the basis for the 1983 Oscar Award-winning film of the same name and the 8-part