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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight

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Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting tale of the feminine pilots who each and every dreamed of being the primary American lady in house.

While the distance age dawned within the past due Nineteen Fifties, Jackie Cochran held extra propeller and jet flying data than any pilot of the 20 th century-guy or lady. She had led the Ladies’s Auxiliary Provider Pilots right through the 2nd Global Struggle, was once the primary lady to wreck the sound barrier, ran her personal luxurious cosmetics corporate, and counted more than one presidents amongst her private buddies. She was once extra certified than any lady on the planet to take the plunge from surroundings to orbit. But it was once Jerrie Cobb, twenty-5 years Jackie’s junior and a document-retaining pilot in her personal proper, who finagled her means into taking the similar scientific assessments because the Mercury astronauts. The possibility of flying in house briefly turned into her obsession.

At the same time as the American and global media spun the stunning tale of a “lady astronaut” software, Jackie and Jerrie struggled to achieve keep watch over of the narrative, each and every hoping to show the rumored software into their very own perfect truth-a subject matter that in the end went the entire approach to Congress.

This twin biography of audacious trailblazers Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb gifts those attention-grabbing and fearless Ladies in all their glory and grit, the usage of their tales as courses during the transferring social, political, and technical panorama of the time.

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