02504cam a2200361 i 4500 513098194 TxAuBib 20141205120000.0 141021s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013024950 9781613748442 cloth 1613748442 cloth (OCoLC)840465083 DLC eng rda DLC IG# BTCTA YDXCP BDX OCLCO UKMGB OCLCF QBX JAO VP@ DNN GZI PROM TxAuBib rda Gibson, Karen Bush. Women in space : 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures / Karen Bush Gibson. Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, Incorporated, [2014] 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Women of action (Chicago, Ill.) Women of action Includes bibliographical references( pages 221-227) and index. 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. Stories of the female pilots, physicists, and doctors who broke the stratospheric ceiling. 12+. 20141205. Women astronauts Biography. Women in astronautics. Women of action (Chicago, Ill.) Women of action.