Promised the moon : the untold story of the first women in the space race
Nolen, Stephanie.
Paper Book
Everyone knows the names of astronauts John Glenn and Alan Shepard, but few are familiar with Gerri Cobb or Bernice Steadman, just two of the so-called Mercury 13--a group of extraordinary women secretly recruited for space training in the early 1960s. Passing gruelling physical and psychological...