![]() Pros: As I’m writing this review, my daughter is sitting at the dining room table taking an orbital mechanics final for her graduate program in astronautics at Stanford, so I can’t help but be grateful for how far women have come since Sally Ride burst on the scene during my own college days. Includes photos of a diverse group of astronauts, an author’s note, and a lengthy bibliography. ![]() The final section of the book is a detailed narrative of Cleave’s own journey aboard the space shuttle in 1985. It wasn’t until 1983 that Sally Ride broke the barriers at NASA, and many other women have succeeded there in the decades since. ![]() Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space. ![]() ![]() Although they were qualified, and their smaller size would have been a plus on early space missions, they were eventually passed over for the all-male Mercury 7. Summary: Real-life astronaut Mary Cleave narrates the story of how women clawed their way into the space program, beginning with a group of women called the Mercury 13 who tried to be part of the first group of astronauts. ![]()
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