Bibliograph

Women in space, 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures, Karen Bush Gibson

Type

Label

Women in space, 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures, Karen Bush Gibson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women in space

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

840465083

Responsibility statement

Karen Bush Gibson

Series statement

Women of action

Sub title

23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures

Summary

Stories of the female pilots, physicists, and doctors who broke the stratospheric ceiling

Table Of Contents

The Mercury 13 : the astronauts who never were -- Cosmonauts : Valentina Tereshkova : first in space -- Svetlana Savitskaya : no apron for her -- Elena Kondakova : long-duration stay -- Yelena Serova : ready and waiting -- American women join the space race -- Sally Ride : first American woman in space -- Judith Resnik : all she ever wanted to do -- Kathryn Sullivan : a walk into history -- Shannon Lucid : a Russian favorite -- Mae Jemison : doctor astronaut -- Ellen Ochoa : career astronaut -- Eileen Collins : space shuttle commander -- Catherine (Cady) Coleman : musical astronaut -- Pamela Melroy : piloting in space -- Peggy Whitson : space station commander -- Sunita Williams : breaking records -- Barbara Morgan : teachers in space -- World astronauts -- Roberta Bondar : living a childhood dream -- Chiaki Mukai : opening doors -- Claudie Haigner : French astronaut and Soyuz commander -- Yi Soyeon : first Korean in space -- Kalpana Chawla : a tragic end -- Liu Yang : a flying knight in space -- Samantha Cristoforetti : military pilot astronaut -- The future of spaceflight

Target audience

adolescent

Classification