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an astronaut's story of invention
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Sullivan, Kathryn D.
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2019
- Thesaurus
- astronauten, pioniers, astronomie, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- Retired astronaut Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space, describes her work on the NASA team. She recounts how she and other astronauts, engineers, and scientists launched, rescued, repaired, and maintained Hubble Space Telescope. Because in-flight repair and upgrade was part of the plan, NASA was able to fix a serious defect in Hubble’s mirrors—leaving literal and metaphorical “handprints on Hubble”.. .Also Sullivan chronicles her early life as a “Sputnik Baby”, her path to NASA through oceanography, and her initiation into the space program as one of “thirty-five new guys”. She was also one of the first six women to join NASA’s storied astronaut corps.
two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight
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- 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.
the American dream and the untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Shetterly, Margot Lee
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- astronauten, wiskunde, ingenieurs, technische beroepen, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of female mathematicians known as “human computers” calculated the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. .Among these problem-solvers were a group of African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam’s call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.
the wild and glorious story of American women aviators from World War II to the dawn of the space age
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Haynsworth, Leslie
- Creator
- Toomey, David
- Publish Year
- 1998
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 1998 - B
- Thesaurus
- pioniers, militaire beroepen, piloten, astronauten, tweede wereldoorlog, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, onderzoek
- Description
- Beschrijving van de belevenissen van vrouwelijke vliegeniers vanaf het begin van de 2e wereldoorlog in de VS. Vrouwen wilden in 1961 meedoen aan de eerste ruimtevaartprogramma's als astronautes bij Nasa, maar kregen geen kans. Een vergelijkend onderzoek naar twee generaties van vrouwelijke pioniers.
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