Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America\'s First Women in Space Program, Paperback/Margaret A. Weitekamp - Johns Hopkins University Press

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Description On June 17, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the First woman in space.
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Weitekamp is curator in the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.
About the author Margaret A. Space Program and the rise of the women\'s movement in America.
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Weitekamp\'s study sheds light on a little-known but compelling chapter in the history of the U.
Drawing from archival research and interviews with participants, Weitekamp traces the rise and fall of the Woman in Space Program within the context of the cold war and the thriving women\'s aviation culture of the 1950s.
In examining the experiences of the Fellow Lady Astronaut Trainees (as the candidates called themselves), this book documents the achievements and frustrated hopes of a remarkable group of Women whose desire to serve their country fell victim to hostility toward such aspirations.
William Randolph Lovelace and funded by world-famous pilot and businesswoman Jacqueline Cochran--challenged prevailing attitudes about women\'s roles and capabilities.
In Right Stuff, Wrong Sex, Margaret Weitekamp shows how the Woman in Space program--conceived by Dr.
Though there were suitable candidates-two years earlier, thirteen female pilots recruited by the private Woman in Space Program had passed a strenuous physical exam and were ready for another stage of astronaut testing-American Women would not escape earth\'s gravity for another twenty years.
Curiously, unlike every previous milestone in the "Space race," this event did not spur NASA to catch up by flying an American woman.
Description On June 17, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the First woman in space