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Right Stuff, Wrong Sex : America's First Women in Space Program (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
Right Stuff Wrong Sex America's First Women in Space Program - Gender Relations in the American Experience
Author: Margaret A. Weitekamp
On June 17, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Unlike every previous milestone in the "space race," however, this event did not spur NASA to catch up, in this case, by flying an American woman. Though there were suitable candidates-two years earlier, thirteen female pilots recruited by the private Woman ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801879944
ISBN-10: 0801879949
Publication Date: 10/18/2004
Pages: 256
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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