Right Stuff, Wrong Sex - America's First Women in Space Program Weitekamp Margaret A. Paperback
Right Stuff, Wrong Sex - America's First Women in Space Program Weitekamp Margaret A. Paperback On June 17, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Though there…
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Right Stuff, Wrong Sex - America's First Women in Space Program Weitekamp Margaret A. Paperback
On June 17, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Though there were suitable candidates-two years earlier, thirteen female pilots recruited by the private Woman in Space program had passed a strenuous physical exam and were ready for another stage of astronaut testing-American women would not escape earth's gravity for another twenty years.In Right Stuff, Wrong Sex, Margaret Weitekamp shows how the Woman in Space program--conceived by Dr. Curiously, unlike every previous milestone in the "space race," this event did not spur NASA to catch up by flying an American woman.
In examining the experiences of the Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees (as the candidates called William Randolph Lovelace and funded by world-famous pilot and businesswoman Jacqueline Cochran--challenged prevailing attitudes about women's roles and capabilities.