Ebook {Epub PDF} Almost Heaven: Women on the Frontiers of Space by Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles

 · This book filled a vital niche in astronaut literature upon its release in , as Yale historian Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles examined the desire to send American women into space dating back into the s and the reasons that the desire finally reached fruition by /5. In Almost Heaven, acclaimed writer Bettyann Kevles gives voice to the women of the space age-women who had the "right stuff," but had to struggle to prove it. Through intensive interviews and meticulous research, Kevles illuminates what makes these women tick. What were their unique concerns as female astronauts?/5(9). In Almost Heaven:The Story of Women in Space, historian. Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles tells the tale of how Ride and. other women made their way into the (still) male-. dominated enterprise of Author: Linda Billings.

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