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Author:

Stone, Tanya Lee.

Title:

Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream / Tanya Lee Stone ; [foreword by Margaret A. Weitekamp].

Edition:

1st paperback ed.

Publisher:

Candlewick Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

133 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Women astronauts--Biography.
Women astronauts--History--20th century.
Sex discrimination against women--History--20th century.
Project Mercury (U.S.)--History.

Notes:

"The true story of the Mercury 13 women."--cover. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

"T minus thirty-eight years" -- "I jumped at the offer" -- "Not a meaningful test!" -- "Mommy's going to the moon!" -- "It was too good to be true" -- "Regret to advise" -- "Let's stop this now!" -- "Jerrie Cobb isn't running this program. I am!" -- "The men go off and fight the wars and fly the airplanes" -- "NASA never had any intention of putting those women in space" -- "We want to see a woman driving the bus, not sitting in the back" -- "I am living proof that dreams do come true."

ISBN:

0763645028 (pbk.)
9780763645021 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)311800513

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)