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Women spacefarers : sixty different paths to orbit /

Umberto Cavallaro, Author | New York, NY : Springer | Springer-Praxis books in space exploration | 2017

Telling the stories of the women who broke down barriers to join the space program, this book starts with the orbital flight of USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in 1963, and includes the biographies of, and some interviews with, the 60 women [...]

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Encyclopedia of women in aviation and space

Rosanne Welch | [S.l.] : ABC CLIO | 1998

You can win bets with this one: six months before the Wright Brothers' historic flight a woman had already flown solo in a powered aircraft. It was a Dumont dirigible with a three-horsepower engine and the pilot was Aida De Costa. Her feat was n[...]

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