Women in space : 23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures / Karen Bush Gibson.
Stories of the female pilots, physicists, and doctors who broke the stratospheric ceiling.
Record details
- ISBN: 1613748442
- ISBN: 9781613748442
- Physical Description: 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The Mercury 13 : the astronauts who never were -- Cosmonauts : Valentina Tereshkova : first in space -- Svetlana Savitskaya : no apron for her -- Elena Kondakova : long-duration stay -- Yelena Serova : ready and waiting -- American women join the space race -- Sally Ride : first American woman in space -- Judith Resnik : all she ever wanted to do -- Kathryn Sullivan : a walk into history -- Shannon Lucid : a Russian favorite -- Mae Jemison : doctor astronaut -- Ellen Ochoa : career astronaut -- Eileen Collins : space shuttle commander -- Catherine (Cady) Coleman : musical astronaut -- Pamela Melroy : piloting in space -- Peggy Whitson : space station commander -- Sunita Williams : breaking records -- Barbara Morgan : teachers in space -- World astronauts -- Roberta Bondar : living a childhood dream -- Chiaki Mukai : opening doors -- Claudie Haigner : French astronaut and Soyuz commander -- Yi Soyeon : first Korean in space -- Kalpana Chawla : a tragic end -- Liu Yang : a flying knight in space -- Samantha Cristoforetti : military pilot astronaut -- The future of spaceflight. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1080L Lexile |
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| Subject: | Women astronauts > Biography. Women in astronautics. |
| Genre: | Young adult literature. Biographies. Young adult literature. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | J629.45 GIB (Text) | 36015000586475 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Sneads Ferry Branch Library | J629.45 GIB (Text) | 36015001133350 | Juvenile Nonfiction | Available | - |
