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Integrating Women into the Astronaut Corps: Politics and Logistics at NASA, 1972–2004
Amy E. Foster
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Hardback. In documenting these events, Foster offers a broader understanding of the difficulties in sexually integrating any workplace, even when the organization approaches the situation with as positive an outlook and as strong a motivation as did NASA. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; PDX; TTDS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female astronaut into space? In answering this question, Foster recounts the complicated history of integrating women into NASA's astronaut corps. NASA selected its first six female astronauts in 1978. Foster examines the political, technological, and cultural challenges that the agency had to overcome to usher in this new era in spaceflight. She shows how NASA had long developed progressive hiring policies but was limited in executing them by a national agenda to beat ... Read more
Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female astronaut into space? In answering this question, Foster recounts the complicated history of integrating women into NASA's astronaut corps. NASA selected its first six female astronauts in 1978. Foster examines the political, technological, and cultural challenges that the agency had to overcome to usher in this new era in spaceflight. She shows how NASA had long developed progressive hiring policies but was limited in executing them by a national agenda to beat ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421401959
SKU
V9781421401959
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About Amy E. Foster
Amy E. Foster is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida.
Reviews for Integrating Women into the Astronaut Corps: Politics and Logistics at NASA, 1972–2004
"This book is the first one to examine seriously how women finally joined the NASA astronaut corps... Rich in documentary sources and strengthened by oral histories, this book offers memorable stories illustrating the texture of this significant transition." (Margaret A. Weitekamp, National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution)"