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Women spacefarers : sixty different paths to space
This book tells the fascinating stories of the valiant women who broke down barriers to join the space program. Beginning with the orbital flight of USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, they became players in the greatest adventure of our time. The author contextualizes their accomplishments in light of the political and cultural climate, from the Cold War in the background to the changing status of women in society at large during the Seventies. The book includes the biographies of, and in some cases interviews with, the sixty women who flew in space in the first half century of space history. It reports their achievements and some little known details. The result is a gallery of pioneering women who reached for the stars: women who, with exceptional skill, hard work, and dedication, reached impressive careers as accomplished pilots, researchers, and engineers; many are now in high level managerial positions both at NASA or in public and private organizations, and all left a legacy of strength.
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Sally Ride : America's first woman in space
This book is a biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights from her family and partner, and by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, Ride broke through a quarter-century of white male fighter jocks when NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, cracking the celestial ceiling and inspiring several generations of women. She also served on the panels investigating the Challenger explosion and the Columbia disintegration that killed all aboard. In both instances she faulted NASA's rush to meet mission deadlines and its organizational failures. The author also writes about her scrupulously guarded personal life to show us a woman whose life intersected with revolutionary social and scientific changes in America.
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Mae Jemison : trailblazing astronaut, doctor, and teacher
\"The first African American woman to travel in space, Mae Jemison has broken barriers in science and medicine to become one of the most admired women worldwide. This fascinating book describes how Jemison refused to let anyone stand in the way of her dreams. She became a doctor and worked in the Peace Corps until NASA invited her to join the astronaut program. Today, she is an important advocate for science in education--especially for girls and women. Jemison also continues to push scientific research to improve life in developing countries.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sally Ride (1951–2012)
Rather than coasting on that success, the enigmatic Ride led several more lives - as a physicist, investigator of the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters and tireless advocate for science education - gaining the respect and affection of her colleagues along the way. Instruments on NASA satellites confirmed the existence of the polar ozone holes, made the first global measurements of atmospheric aerosols and have monitored ice-sheet melting and rising sea levels.
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The six : the untold story of America's first women astronauts
\"When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had 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 1978--Sally 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 claustrophobic--and sometimes deeply sexist--media 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 Ride's history-making first space ride, but each of the Six would make their mark\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Biographies of Women in the Robert Sibert Award: A Critical Content Analysis
In the realm of modern children's literature, biographies of women showcase lives of exceptional talent, perseverance, civic engagement, and more: lives meant to inspire young readers. Since its inception in 2001, the Robert Sibert Informational Book Medal and Honor award has included a biography (or two) every year, with the exception of 2004 and 2006. This critical content analysis examines biographies of girls and women that were awarded the Sibert medal or honor since 2001, focusing on demographic elements of the corpus as a whole, and thematic patterns that contain explicit or implicit messages about how being female featured in the trajectories toward recognition for the talent or public role for which the girls and women are known. The research builds on the lines of inquiry about award-winning books for which a precedent has been set by other scholars. The authors discuss their findings along thematic lines, and include implications for readers and for teachers.
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Learn about astronaut Sally Ride, who became the first American woman in space in 1983
Sally Ride was one of the first six women to enter NASA's astronaut program. On June 18, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger launched into space with Ride aboard. She became the first American woman in space, and at 32 years old, the youngest American.
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