Space for Women
Subtitle: A History of Women With the Right Stuff
Publisher: Seven Locks Press
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781931643122
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Space travel & exploration; Women's studies; United States - 20th Century; National Aeronautics and Space; History; History - General History; History: American; The Americas; Women astronauts; Women's Studies - History; Sex discrimination in employment; United States; Women in astronautics
Description: ""The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order." This statement was made by John Glenn in 1962 at the hearings to determine the future of women in the Unites States space program. That statement would set women back twenty years in their effort to realize their dreams of space travel."--BOOK JACKET.