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Originally published: Toronto, on: Penguin Canada, 2002 Includes bibliographical references (pages 332-342) and index Stephanie Nolen heard a story about Jerrie Cobb, and she couldn't let it go: Cobb, a world-record-setting pilot and a woman, was recruited in 1959 to take the astronaut tests. At the time, the United States was losing the space race. The Soviets had larger, more powerful rockets, and engineers at NASA thought women -- smaller and lighter -- might be the answer to their problems. Women were also thought to be more tolerant of isolation and pain. Randy Lovelace, chair of NASA's Life Sciences Committee and the doctor who supervised the selection of NASA's Mercury astronauts, and Donald Flickinger, an air force brigadier general and pioneer in aviation medicine, came up with the plan for a woman-in-space program. They tested Jerrie Cobb, and she excelled on the same battery of tests that her male counterparts took. She endured time in an isolation tank and spun through powerful G-forces. Lovelace recruited additional female pilots for the tests, and twelve performed exceptionally

Author

Nolen, Stephanie

Publisher

New York: Four Walls Eight Windows

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781568582757

Subjects

Engineering, Memoir, Science

Rating

3.66 / 5 (58 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13