Gibson, Karen Bush. <br/><br/>
Women in space :  23 stories of first flights, scientific missions, and gravity-breaking adventures  
Karen Bush Gibson. 
 - Chicago, Illinois :  Chicago Review Press, Incorporated,  2014 
 - 234 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references( pages 221-227) and index. 
<br/><br/>The Mercury 13 : the astronauts who never were -- Cosmonauts : Valentina Tereshkova : first in space -- Svetlana Savitskaya : no apron for her -- Elena Kondakova : long-duration stay -- Yelena Serova : ready and waiting -- American women join the space race -- Sally Ride : first American woman in space -- Judith Resnik : all she ever wanted to do -- Kathryn Sullivan : a walk into history -- Shannon Lucid : a Russian favorite -- Mae Jemison : doctor astronaut -- Ellen Ochoa : career astronaut -- Eileen Collins : space shuttle commander -- Catherine (Cady) Coleman : musical astronaut -- Pamela Melroy : piloting in space -- Peggy Whitson : space station commander -- Sunita Williams : breaking records -- Barbara Morgan : teachers in space -- World astronauts -- Roberta Bondar : living a childhood dream -- Chiaki Mukai : opening doors -- Claudie Haigner : French astronaut and Soyuz commander -- Yi Soyeon : first Korean in space -- Kalpana Chawla : a tragic end -- Liu Yang : a flying knight in space -- Samantha Cristoforetti : military pilot astronaut -- The future of spaceflight. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781613748442  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013024950 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women astronauts--Biography--Juvenile literature.<br/>Women in astronautics--Juvenile literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TL793  / .G457 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>629.45009252  / GIB