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02323aim a22004817i 4500 001 4714BCC061B211EE96A426B62DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231003010052 007 sd fsngnnmmned 008 230808s2023 nyunnnne hb n eng d 020 $a 179716063X 020 $a 9781797160634 020 $a 1797160621 020 $a 9781797160627 035 $a (OCoLC)1393122579 040 $a BLACP $b eng $e rda $c BLACP $d SILO 100 1 $a Grush, Loren, $e author. 245 14 $a The six : $b the untold story of America's first women astronauts / $c Loren Grush. 246 3 $a 6 : $b the untold story of America's first women astronauts 246 30 $a Untold story of America's first women astronauts 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [New York] : $b Simon & Schuster Audio, $c [2023] 300 $a 9 audio discs (11 1/2 hr.) : $b CD audio, digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact discs. 511 0 $a Read by IneÌs del Castillo. 520 $a Originally, NASA excluded women from space flight. Eventually, NASA relented and opened the application process to everyone, regardless of race or gender. From a 1977 candidate pool of 8,000, six elite women were selected--Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon. Journalist Loren Grush shows these brilliant and courageous women enduring claustrophobic--and sometimes deeply sexist--media attention, undergoing rigorous survival training, and preparing for years to take multi-million-dollar payloads into orbit. 610 10 $a United States. $b National Aeronautics and Space Administration $x History. 650 0 $a Women astronauts $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women in astronautics $z United States. 650 0 $a Sex discrimination against women. 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SCIENCE / Space Science. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Castillo, IneÌs del, $e narrator. 941 $a 3 945 $a cdab 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240207010347.0 952 $l MTPB743 $d 20231216093443.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20231003012304.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4714BCC061B211EE96A426B62DECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search