Fighting for space : two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight /
Jackie Cochran had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier. She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb, twenty-five years Jackie's junior a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Grand Central Publishing,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Jackie Cochran had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier. She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb, twenty-five years Jackie's junior and a record-holding pilot in her own right, who finagled her way into taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts. While the American and international media spun the shocking story of a "woman astronaut" program, Jackie and Jerrie each hoping to turn the rumored program into their own ideal reality. Teitel uses their stories as guides through the shifting social, political and technical landscape of the time. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-426). |
| ISBN: | 9781538716045 1538716046 |