It was good. That's sort of the issue. To me, this was just good. Nothing extraordinary, however, quite interesting. I think the pacing of this novel ruin the fun parts. There were too many mentions of the women's home life for my liking. While I completely understand that these ladies being mothers and wives, at the same time as being astronauts, especially in their time period, is important. And, of course, that's important to them. It's perhaps my modern mindset of women being more than just their home responsibilities that left me disappointed. I kind of didn't care about the paragraphs upon paragraphs about these women finding love and getting pregnant during their honeymoon. What exactly did they do during their time at NASA?

And while, yes, we did read about their responsibilities at work, as well as the misogyny they faced and how they dealt with it (beautifully, may I add), as stated above, the pacing ruin those moments for me. Felt so far and few in between. By the time we got to read about them flying out into space I just didn't care. One critique I have about most nonfiction books is that the poorly written ones read like skimmed Wiki pages. When that occurs, I feel like I could find a video essay on the same topic that's more engaging and visually entertaining which... I mean... Defeats the purpose, doesn't it?

I don't mean to be harsh. I do think this is a worth-it read. I just feel as though there may be better resources available out there to learn about these lovely women and their time at NASA.