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Title:
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Women spacefarers : sixty different paths to orbit /
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Authors:
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Umberto Cavallaro, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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New York, NY : Springer, 2017
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Series:
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Springer-Praxis books in space exploration
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-3-319-34047-0
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Size:
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xxxi, 403 p. / col. ill. / 24 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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TL781.85.A1
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Subjects:
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Women astronauts
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Women astronauts--Biography
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Description:
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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 who flew in space in the first half-century of space history.
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