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The six : the untold story of America's first women astronauts / by Grush, Loren,author.;

Includes bibliographical references and index."When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender. From a candidate pool of 8,000 six elite women were selected in 1978--Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon. In The Six, acclaimed 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. Together, the Six helped build the tools that made the space program run. One of the group, Judy Resnik, sacrificed her life when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded at 46,000 feet. Everyone knows of Sally Ride's history-making first space ride, but each of the Six would make their mark" --

Subjects: Women astronauts; Astronauts; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.;

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Space chronicles : facing the ultimate frontier / by Tyson, Neil deGrasse,author.; Lang, Avis.;

Subjects: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.; Astronautics and state; Manned space flight;

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Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race / by Lee Shetterly, Margot.;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-328) and index."Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the space race, [this book] follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances, and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future"--Back cover.Author's note -- Prologue. -- A door opens -- Mobilization -- Past is prologue -- The double V -- Manifest destiny -- War birds -- The duration -- Those who move forward -- Breaking barriers -- Home by the sea -- The area rule -- Serendipity -- Turbulence -- Angle of attack -- Young, gifted, and black -- What a difference a day makes -- Outer space -- With all deliberate speed -- Model behavior -- Degrees of freedom -- Out of the past, the future -- America is for everybody -- To boldly go. -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Reading group guide.

Subjects: Biographies.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Women mathematicians; African American women; African American mathematicians; Space race.;

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Hidden figures / by Melfi, Theodore,film director,screenwriter,film producer.; Gigliotti, Donna,film producer.; Chernin, Peter,1951-film producer.; Topping, Jenno,film producer.; Williams, Pharrell,film producer,composer (expression); Schroeder, Allison,screenwriter.; Walker, Mandy,1963-director of photography.; Zimmer, Hans,composer (expression); Wallfisch, Benjamin,composer (expression); Teschner, Peter,editor of moving image work.; Thomas, Wynn P.,production designer.; Kalfus, Renée Ehrlich,costume designer.; Henson, Taraji P.,actor.; Spencer, Octavia,actor.; Monáe, Janelle,actor.; Costner, Kevin,actor.; Dunst, Kirsten,1982-actor.; Parsons, Jim,1973-actor.; Ali, Mahershala,1974-actor.; Hodge, Aldis,actor.; Powell, Glen,1988-actor.; Quinn, Kimberly,actor.; Krupa, Olek,actor.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Shetterly, Margot Lee.Hidden figures.; Fox 2000 Pictures,presenter.; Chernin Entertainment,production company.; Levantine Films,production company.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,publisher.;

DVD; region 1, NTSC; widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1 (English), Dolby digital 2.0 (Spanish, French), English descriptive audio 5.1.Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, Glen Powell, Kimberly Quinn, Olek Krupa.Director of photography, Mandy Walker ; production designer, Wynn Thomas ; edited by Peter Teschner ; costume designer, Renée Ehrlich Kalfus ; music, Hans Zimmer, Pharrell Williams, Benjamin Wallfisch.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements and some language.As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.

Subjects: Biographical films.; Historical films.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Johnson, Katherine G.; Jackson, Mary, 1921-2005; Vaughan, Dorothy, 1910-2008; Women mathematicians; African American women; African American mathematicians; Space race; Race relations;

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Atmosphere : a love story / by Reid, Taylor Jenkins,author.https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrKVHX8R9bgkgDycwjgrq;

Includes bibliographical references.Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA's space shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space. Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston's Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easygoing even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warmhearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.

Subjects: Lesbian fiction.; Historical fiction.; Romance fiction.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Love; Friendship; Space shuttles; Woman-woman relationships; Women astronauts; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Women college teachers; Astronauts; Lesbians;

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