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The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts

byLoren Grush

Loren Grush tells the story of NASA's first six women astronauts: Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon. Selected in 1978, they entered a program designed around men and helped transform the astronaut corps during the Space Shuttle era. Training, missions, family pressures, media scrutiny, competition, friendship, triumph, and tragedy reveal both individual differences and shared barriers. The book situates their achievements alongside the first Black and Asian American astronauts, showing how one class changed who could represent the United States in space.

Publisher

Scribner

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781982172800