
Sally Ride
America's First Woman in Space
Lynn Sherr(Author)
Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
Published on 24. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-4767-2577-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, with exclusive insights from her family and partner, and by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, Ride broke through a quarter-century of white male fighter jocks when NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, cracking the celestial ceiling and inspiring several generations of women. She also served on the panels investigating the Challenger explosion and the Columbia disintegration that killed all aboard. In both instances she faulted NASA's rush to meet mission deadlines and its organizational failures. The author also writes about her scrupulously guarded personal life to show us a woman whose life intersected with revolutionary social and scientific changes in America.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 139 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
381 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4767-2577-2 (9781476725772)
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06/2014
Simon + Schuster LLC
€12.85
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Person
Lynn Sherr is an award-winning broadcaster and author who spent more than thirty years at ABC News. She reported on the NASA space shuttle program from its inception in 1981 through the Challenger explosion in 1986. Sherr’s numerous awards include an Emmy, two American Women in Radio and Television Commendation awards, a Gracie Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award. Her books include Swim, Outside the Box, and America the Beautiful, among others.