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Tells the dramatic, uplifting story of two generations of female flyers who surpassed their male counterparts in courage and often in skill, the Women's Airforce Service Pilots of World War II and the aerospace test pilots of the early 1960s. Reprint.
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Hardcover:
9780688152338 | William Morrow & Co, August 1, 1998, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the lives and careers of pioneering women aviators
Paperback:
9780380729845 | 1 reprint edition (Avon A, July 1, 2000), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the lives and careers of pioneering women aviators, noting their personal successes which paved the way for other women pilots, and their struggle for recognition and opportunity to fly in space.
Profiles the thirteen women, all pilots who passed the same battery of tests as the Mercury 7 astronauts, who were chosen as America's first female astronauts but who were refused the opportunity to participate.
Hardcover:
9780786258185 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 2003), cover price $30.95
9780375507441 | Random House Inc, May 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Profiles the thirteen women, all pilots who passed the same battery of tests as the Mercury 7 astronauts, who were chosen as America's first female astronauts but who were refused the opportunity to participate.
A female world-record-setting pilot, Jerrie Cobb was recruited in 1959 to take the astronaut tests. She excelled, so the doctor who supervised the selection of NASA's Mercury astronauts recruited additional female pilots. Twelve performed exceptionally. Stephanie Nolen tracked down eleven of the surviving 'Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees'' and learned the story of those early days of the space race and the disappointment when, in 1961, the women were grounded.
Hardcover:
9781568582757 | Basic Books, July 29, 2003, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: NASA's secret all-female astronaut training program is chronicled in this look at an intensive two-year program that seemed to suggest a genuine interest in training female astronauts until the program was unexpectedly shut down.
Paperback:
9781568583198 | Basic Books, October 20, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A female world-record-setting pilot, Jerrie Cobb was recruited in 1959 to take the astronaut tests.
Hardcover:
9780801879944 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 18, 2004, cover price $55.00
Paperback:
9780801883941 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 26, 2005, cover price $26.00
Hardcover:
9780230619937 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, March 2, 2010), cover price $25.00
Paperback:
9780230112216 | Reprint edition (Griffin, April 26, 2011), cover price $19.99
Miscellaneous:
9780230105799 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 2, 2010, cover price $11.99
CD/Spoken Word:
9781494553401 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 3, 2014), cover price $29.99
9781494503406 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 3, 2014), cover price $44.99
Paperback:
9780373121083, titled "Forbidden Pleasure" | Harlequin Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $3.99 | also contains Forbidden Pleasure, Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space; Library Edition
CD/Spoken Word:
9781494533403 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 3, 2014), cover price $95.99
Hardcover:
9781410471093, titled "Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 2, 2014), cover price $32.99
9781476725765, titled "Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space" | Simon & Schuster, June 3, 2014, cover price $28.00
Paperback:
9781476725772, titled "Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space" | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, March 24, 2015), cover price $16.99
9780373625581, titled "Cold Asylum" | Gold Eagle, April 1, 1999, cover price $5.99 | also contains Cold Asylum
Hardcover:
9781442488540 | Aladdin Paperbacks, September 9, 2014, cover price $17.99
Paperback:
9781442488557 | Reprint edition (Aladdin Paperbacks, March 15, 2016), cover price $6.99
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