Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures by Karen Bush Gibson

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Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures

Karen Bush Gibson

240 pages 2014

2 editions

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When Valentina Tereshkova blasted off aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she became the first woman to rocket into space. It would be 19 years before another woman got a chance—cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982—followed by American astronaut Sa...

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