Promised the moon : the untold story of the first women in the space race by Nolen Stephanie

Promised the moon : the untold story of the first women in the space race by Nolen Stephanie

Author:Nolen, Stephanie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Women astronauts, Women in astronautics, Feminism, Space race, Sex discrimination against women, Astronautin, Wettlauf
ISBN: 9781568582757
Publisher: New York : Four Walls Eight Windows
Published: 2003-10-18T16:00:00+00:00


Courtesy of Irene Leverton Courtesy of Wally Funk

Wally Funk catches a ride in a T-33, Ft. Sill army base, 196L

Irene Leverton in her first aviation job, on the line crew at Elmhurst Airport, Chicago, 1947.

Jan (left) and Marion Dietrich, Civil Air Patrol lessons, 1945.

B Trimble before her first victory in the All-Womens Transcontinental Air Race, Michigan, 1955.

Photo by Russ Scott Courtesy of Pat Dal

Sarah Gore lick and her plane, Kansas City, 1963.

Rhea Hurrle, Texas, circa 1961.

Jackie Cochran gets ready to break the sound barrier, assisted by Chuck Yeager, center, 1953.

Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum

Courtesy of Rhea Woltman



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