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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. 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 prog...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801883941
ISBN-10: 0801883946
Publication Date: 10/26/2005
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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