Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures
An A Cappella Book WOMEN IN SPACE 23 Stories of First Flights Scientific Missions and Gravity-Breaking Adventures KAREN BUSH GIBSON
To Justus whose curiosity about space and life knows no boundaries
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 PART I THE MERCURY 13 9 The Astronauts Who Never Were 13 PART II COSMONAUTS 41 Valentina Tereshkova First in Space 49 Svetlana Savitskaya No Apron for Her 57 Elena Kondakova Long Duration in Space 62 Yelena Serova Ready and Waiting 66 PART III AMERICAN WOMEN JOIN THE SPACE RACE 73 Sally Ride First American Woman in Space 81 Judith Resnik All She Ever Wanted to Do 91 Kathryn Sullivan A Walk into History 99 Shannon Lucid A Russian Favorite 105 Mae Jemison Doctor Astronaut 112 Ellen Ochoa Career Astronaut 119 Eileen Collins Space Shuttle Commander 125 Catherine Cady Coleman Musical Astronaut 134 Pamela Melroy Piloting in Space 139 Peggy Whitson Space Station Commander 145 Sunita Williams Breaking Records 151 Barbara Morgan Teachers in Space 158
