Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the Female Pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space.
She had led the Women\'s Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier, ran her own luxury cosmetics company, and coun.
When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth century-man or woman.
Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the Female Pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space