* This is the only book that provides the full story of the role of women in space exploration. * Previously unpublished photographs of various aspects of training and participation in spaceflights are included. * Personal interviews with female cosmonauts and astronauts. * Traces the history of female aviation milestones from the early part of the 20th Century to the current space programme.

Chronicles the life of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to travel into space, discussing her life, her training, and her life after the mission.

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Recounts the story of each woman's flight into space, including personal information, background, and flight experience, and outlines the process involved in becoming an astronaut.

Describes Russia's society and the diverse roles women have played throughout history and today.

Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.

Traces the development of space technology from primitive Mayan instruments to the X-ray telescopes of today.

When Valentina Tereshkova blasted off aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she became the first woman to rocket into space. It would be 19 years before another woman got a chance—cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982—followed by American astronaut Sally Ride a year later. And by breaking the stratospheric ceiling, these women forged a path for many female astronauts, cosmonauts, and mission specialists to follow. In Women in Space, author Karen Bush Gibson profiles 23 pioneers, all of whom achieved greatness in orbit. Read about Eileen Collins, the first woman to command the Space Shuttle; Peggy Whitson, who has logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station; Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space; as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, France, and more. Learn, too, about the Mercury 13, American women selected by NASA in the late 1950s to train for spaceflight. Though they matched and sometimes surpassed their male counterparts in performance, they were ultimately denied the opportunity to head out to the launching pad. Their story, and the stories of pilots, physicists, and doctors who followed them, demonstrate the vital role women have played in the quest for scientific understanding. Karen Bush Gibson is the author of Women Aviators, Native American History for Kids, and three dozen other books for young readers. She lives in Norman, Oklahoma.

A twenty-one volume encyclopedia with 32,000 entries and more than 16,000 illustrations.

Traces the history of women pilots, describes record-setting flights, and looks at the role of women pilots during World War II and in modern commercial aviation

Aviation History.