two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Teitel, Amy Shira
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2020
- Thesaurus
- astronauten, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. While the American and international media spun the shocking story of a 'woman astronaut' program, Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb 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 Cochran and Cobb presents them in all their glory and grit, using their stories as guides through the shifting social, political, and technical landscape of the time.