To Fly Among the Stars: A True Story of the Women and Men Who Tested to Become America's First Astronauts by Rebecca Siegel

To Fly Among the Stars: A True Story of the Women and Men Who Tested to Become America's First Astronauts

Rebecca Siegel

368 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history science emotional informative medium-paced
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A searing look at the birth of America's space program, and the men and women aviators who set its course.In the 1960s, locked in a heated race to launch the first human into space, the United States selected seven superstar test pilots and former...

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