Women in Space - Following Valentina

Women in Space - Following Valentina
Author: Shayler David
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2006-08-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1846280788

* This is the only book that provides the full story of the role of women in space exploration. * Previously unpublished photographs of various aspects of training and participation in spaceflights are included. * Personal interviews with female cosmonauts and astronauts. * Traces the history of female aviation milestones from the early part of the 20th Century to the current space programme.

Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova
Author: Heather Feldman
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2002-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780823962464

Chronicles the life of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to travel into space, discussing her life, her training, and her life after the mission.

Astronauts

Astronauts
Author: Jim Ottaviani
Publisher: First Second
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 125077778X

In the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incredible drive of Mary Cleave, Valentina Tereshkova, and the first women in space. The U.S. may have put the first man on the moon, but it was the Soviet space program that made Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space. It took years to catch up, but soon NASA’s first female astronauts were racing past milestones of their own. The trail-blazing women of Group 9, NASA’s first mixed gender class, had the challenging task of convincing the powers that be that a woman’s place is in space, but they discovered that NASA had plenty to learn about how to make space travel possible for everyone.

"It is I, Sea Gull;"

Author: Mitchell R. Sharpe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1975
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A biography of the first woman astronaut and history of the Russian manned space program.

Women in Space

Women in Space
Author: Karen Gibson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1613748442

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 Sally Ride a year later. And by breaking the stratospheric ceiling, these women forged a path for many female astronauts, cosmonauts, and mission specialists to follow. In Women in Space, author Karen Bush Gibson profiles 23 pioneers, all of whom achieved greatness in orbit. Read about Eileen Collins, the first woman to command the Space Shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who has logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, France, and more. Learn, too, about the Mercury 13, American women selected by NASA in the late 1950s to train for spaceflight. Though they matched and sometimes surpassed their male counterparts in performance, they were ultimately denied the opportunity to head out to the launching pad. Their story, and the stories of pilots, physicists, and doctors who followed them, demonstrate the vital role women have played in the quest for scientific understanding. Karen Bush Gibson is the author of Women Aviators, Native American History for Kids, and three dozen other books for young readers. She lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex

Right Stuff, Wrong Sex
Author: Margaret A. Weitekamp
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780801883941

space program and the rise of the women's movement in America.

Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Tereshkova
Author: Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2015-10-25
Genre: Astronauts
ISBN: 9781887022996

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel into space, spending almost three days piloting Vostok 6 in 1963-twenty years before Sally Ride became the first American woman to reach orbit. Affectionately known as the "First Lady of Space," Valentina Vladiminirovna "Valya" Tereshkova was born in a small village outside Moscow where she was a textile factory assembly worker and an amateur skydiver. Her skills at parachuting caught the attention of the cosmonaut program and she became one of just five women applicants (out of more than 400) to be recruited and the only one to fly to orbit. She spent almost three days in space, orbiting the Earth 48 times. During this single flight, she logged more flight time than the combined times of all American astronauts who had flown before that date. She became an inspiration to millions of women and was designated a "Hero of the Soviet Union." Inside is her story, told to us in her own words. Contains a number of rare photos.

Women in the Khrushchev Era

Women in the Khrushchev Era
Author: M. Ilic
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2004-02-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230523439

This collection of essays examines women in the Khrushchev era, using both newly-accessible archival material and a re-reading of published sources. Exploring diverse subjects including housing, space flight, women workers, cinema, religion and consumption, the volume places the analysis of specific events or issues within a broader discussion of economic, political, ideological and international developments to provide a full analysis of the era.

Fighting for Space

Fighting for Space
Author: Amy Shira Teitel
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1538716038

Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth century—man or woman. She had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier, ran her own luxury cosmetics company, and counted multiple presidents among her personal friends. She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb, twenty-five years Jackie's junior and a record-holding pilot in her own right, who finagled her way into taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts. The prospect of flying in space quickly became her obsession. While the American and international media spun the shocking story of a "woman astronaut" program, Jackie and Jerrie struggled to gain control of the narrative, each hoping to turn the rumored program into their own ideal reality—an issue that ultimately went all the way to Congress. This dual biography of audacious trailblazers Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb presents these fascinating and fearless women in all their glory and grit, using their stories as guides through the shifting social, political, and technical landscape of the time.

Into That Silent Sea

Into That Silent Sea
Author: Francis French
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2009-09-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780803226395

A history of early space flight focuses on the careers of both American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts and includes coverage of other persons who worked in support roles.