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About the Author Rebecca Siegel is a children\'s author and editor who lives outside Chicago, Illinois, with her husband and two daughters.
With thrilling stories of aviation feats, frustrating tales of the Fight against sexism, and historical photos, To Fly Among the Stars recounts an incredible era of US innovation, and the audacious hope of the Women who took their Fight for space flight all the way to Washington, DC.
But a group of 13 Women -- accomplished air racers, test pilots, and flight instructors -- were enduring those same astronaut tests in secret, hoping to defy social norms and earn a spot Among the stars.
The men endured grueling training and constant media attention for the honor of becoming America\'s first space heroes.
In the 1960s, locked in a heated race to launch the first human into space, the United States selected seven superstar test pilots and former military air fighters to NASA\'s astronaut class -- the Mercury 7.
A searing look at the birth of America\'s space program, and the men and Women aviators who set its course
