Download & read The Six -- Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

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The extraordinary true story of America&#8217sfirst female astronauts hailed
as &#8220supenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening&#8221by Margot
Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures, now
adapted for young readers.Sally Ride may have been the first US woman in
space, but did you know there were five other incredible American women who
helped blaze the trail for female astronauts by her side? When NASA sent
astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s, the agency excluded women
from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots&#8212agroup women were
also aggressively barred from&#8212ha the right stuff. But as the 1980s
dawned so did new thinking, and six elite women scientists&#8212Saly Ride,
Judith Resnik, Anna Lee Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea
Seddon&#8212se out to prove they had exactly the right stuff to become the
first US women astronauts. In The Six Young Readers Edition, acclaimed
journalist Loren Grush shows how these brilliant and courageous women
fought to enter STEM fields they were discouraged from pursuing, endured
claustrophobic&#8212an often deeply sexist&#8212meia attention, underwent
rigorous survival training, and prepared for years to take multi-million-dollar
equipment into orbit. Told with contributions from nearly all the living
participants and now adapted for young readers, this book is an inspiring
testament to their struggles, accomplishments, and sacrifices and how they
built the tools that made the space program run. It&#8217sa legacy that lives
on to inspire young people today.