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Overview"Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth century--man or woman. She had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier, ran her own luxury cosmetics company, and counted multiple presidents among her personal friends. She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb, twenty-five years Jackie's junior and a record-holding pilot in her own right, who finagled her way into taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts. The prospect of flying in space quickly became her obsession. While the American and international media spun the shocking story of a ""woman astronaut"" program, Jackie and Jerrie struggled to gain control of the narrative, each hoping to turn the rumored program into their own ideal reality--an issue that ultimately went all the way to Congress. This dual biography of audacious trailblazers Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb presents these fascinating and fearless women in all their glory and grit, using their stories as guides through the shifting social, political, and technical landscape of the time." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy Shira Teitel , Amy Shira TeitelPublisher: Grand Central Publishing Imprint: Grand Central Publishing Edition: Library Edition ISBN: 9781549130564ISBN 10: 1549130560 Publication Date: 18 February 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""Teitel...illuminates the foundations of American spaceflight with this exceptional and detailed 'prehistory' of the field."" -- ""Publishers Weekly on Breaking the Chains of Gravity"" ""This is a good treatment of the origins of the US space program."" -- ""Choice""" This is a good treatment of the origins of the US space program. -- Choice Teitel...illuminates the foundations of American spaceflight with this exceptional and detailed 'prehistory' of the field. -- Publishers Weekly on Breaking the Chains of Gravity Author InformationAMY SHIRA TEITEL is a spaceflight historian, author, YouTuber, public speaker, and popular space personality. Not unlike her subjects, she is one of the only academically trained young female spaceflight historians writing for a general audience. She runs the beloved blog Vintage Space (hosted by Discover Magazine) which is also a YouTube channel with over 284,000 subscribers. She's a regular writer for Discovery's Seeker and has hosted numerous space and science-related shows, among them NASA's The Unexplained Files. She gives talks about spaceflight all over the US and Australia. AMY SHIRA TEITEL is a spaceflight historian, author, YouTuber, public speaker, and popular space personality. Not unlike her subjects, she is one of the only academically trained young female spaceflight historians writing for a general audience. She runs the beloved blog Vintage Space (hosted by Discover Magazine) which is also a YouTube channel with over 284,000 subscribers. She's a regular writer for Discovery's Seeker and has hosted numerous space and science-related shows, among them NASA's The Unexplained Files. She gives talks about spaceflight all over the US and Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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