The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America's First Women Astronauts by Grush, Loren
The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America's First Women Astronauts by Grush, Loren

The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America's First Women Astronauts

"Vivid." --The Guardian * "Engrossing." --Booklist * "Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening." --Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York...
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The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America's First Women Astronauts by Grush, Loren

The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America's First Women Astronauts

$42.34
The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America's First Women Astronauts by Grush, Loren

The Six: The Extraordinary Story of the Grit and Daring of America's First Women Astronauts

$42.34
Author: Loren Grush
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Vivid." --The Guardian * "Engrossing." --Booklist * "Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening." --Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures

In this account of America's first women astronauts "Grush skillfully weaves a story that, at its heart, is about desire: not a nation's desire to conquer space, but the longing of six women to reach heights that were forbidden to them" (The New York Times).

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. "A spirited group biography...it's hard not to feel awe for these women" (The Wall Street Journal).

Author: Loren Grush
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781982172817

About the Author
Loren Grush is a reporter for Bloomberg News specializing in all things space. Previously, she was a senior science reporter for the technology news website The Verge and hosted the online show Space Craft, which took her across the country to explore what it takes to train for space. The daughter of two NASA engineers, Grush grew up surrounded by astronauts and Space Shuttles. She has also been published in The New York Times, Popular Science, and Nautilus magazine, and has appeared on several TV networks as an expert commentator. You can find her at LorenGrush.com.
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