The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts US Navy Caught in the crosshairs of

Caught in the crosshairs of this battle are the shuttle astronauts who gave their lives in those catastrophes

who’d dreamed since boyhood of riding a rocket to the Moon

with a gallery of more than 700 color and sepia toned illustrations of original insignia and period photographs

it has mesh sides to help keep your head ventilated

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts US Navy Caught in the crosshairs ofWritten by Loren Grush In this account of Americas first women astronauts Grush skillfully weaves a story that, at its heart, is about desire: not a nations desire to conquer space, but the longing of six women to reach heights that were forbidden to them (The New York Times). When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilotsa group then made up exclusively of