Contemporary Adult Nonfiction history of women in aviation with International appeal for readers interested in women pilots and female astronaut history. Packed with easy-to-read, true stories of historic International women aviators and female astronauts of the world. Historic female pilots and women astronauts from America, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, and Russia. Illustrated with over 110 unique photographs of International women aviators and female space history makers in a pictorial format. Filled with powerful and inspiring true stories of International women aviators and female astronauts from the early days of aviation to today's astronauts. Learn about important history-making, International women aviators, and female astronauts blazing sky and space trails over the last 100 years. True stories of real women of aviation history informs readers. Learning more about the many and significant contributions women aviators and female astronauts make in the aviation and space industry opens readers to new possibilities in their own careers. Historic female aviation and space trailblazers will amaze readers interested in true stories of inspiring and talented female aviation and space pioneers. Readers will understand important lessons learned from International women pilots and female astronauts. Enjoy a comfortable journey of discovery of women's aviation space history in an easy-to-read pictorial format. Unique, true stories of International female pilots and women astronauts. Extensive bibliography and on-line resources provides opportunity for further exploration of the history of women in aviation and female space history. Researched and written by award-winning International women's aviation and female space historian, Dr. Penny Rafferty Hamilton, 101 Trailblazing Women of Air and Space reveals aviation and space history seldom published in other contemporary books about female aviators and women astronauts. Dr. Hamilton, a highly-acclaimed photographer, organized true stories of International female pilots and astronauts in an easy to read pictorial format. Great gift for women in aviation and space industries.

Compiles some 250 entries on individuals, events, institutions, and organizations related to women in aviation and space. Includes many biographical entries on women aviators throughout the world, numerous bandw photographs chronicling the history of women and their flying machines, coverage of the first black female aviators, and discussions of contemporary problems of women pilots from sexual harrassment to denial of earned promotions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book encourages and inspires young women to explore new opportunities in air and space. Packed with inspiring words, stories, and photographs from International trailblazing women in the worldwide air and space industry.

Most girls incorrectly assume that they don¿t have the skills to work for NASA, because they don¿t have sufficient technical, scientific, or engineering training. Space missions, however, require thousands of people with many different backgrounds, skill sets, and perspectives. In this vein Making Space for Women is intended to encourage and inspire the next generation of female explorers and attract readers in the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) disciplines. Designed for high-school and college age girls, their instructors, and parents, this book takes readers where no previous books have, a look at the female experience at NASA. Using oral history narratives, this path-breaking work provides a look at NASA career opportunities for women over the past 50 years and highlights the changes witnessed by female employees over the years at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). This volume includes interviews conducted for several NASA Oral History Projects. Gathered within its pages are voices from astronauts, mathematicians, engineers, secretaries, scientists, trainers, managers, and more. Those featured not only discuss leadership, teamwork, and the experiences of being ¿the first,¿ but reveal how the role of the working woman in a predominantly white male, technical agency has evolved. Featured in this book are women who spent decades in the midst of the nation¿s human spaceflight program but until now, their thoughts and contributions have remained relatively unknown. Their memories and experience provide a deeper understanding and a different perspective of some of the key events of their time: America¿s first lunar landing and the Space Shuttle Challenger and Columbia accidents. Together, the women offer a unique view of the past fifty years of human spaceflight, while also providing a broader understanding of changes in American culture, society, industry, and life. For girls who face barriers to studying STEAM, they will learn how the women of JSC overcame challenges, worked through hesitation and even fear, all while making an impact on those around them and paving a path for others to follow.

Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart may be the most famous trailblazing women within the world of early aviation, but there were many others. From the Wright brothers' sister Katherine, who was awarded the Légion d'honneur, to Mary, Lady Heath, the first woman to pilot a light aircraft from South Africa to England, the history of aviation is peppered with pioneering women who broke down the barriers of this male-dominated field. This is the story of those female aviators: not only the widely celebrated records of Johnson and Earhart, but also the now lesser-known exploits of those such as Mary, Lady Bailey, who was awarded an OBE in 1930. This essential guide also covers the new opportunities carved out for women during the Second World War, the age of space flight and women's ongoing work in aviation in the modern age of equality.

"A beautiful and inspiring book...fascinatingly told." — Donna Shirley, former head of the U.S. Mars program, NASA The exhilarating story of the first women who boldly conquered the skies in the first female cross-country air race The year is 1929, and on the eve of America's Great Depression, nineteen gutsy and passionate pilots soared above the glass ceiling in the very first female cross-country air race. Armed with grit and determination, they crossed thousands of miles in propeller-driven airplanes to defy the naysayers who would say it cannot — not should not — be done. From the indomitable Pancho Barnes to the infamous Amelia Earhart, Sky Girls chronicles a defining and previously forgotten moment when some of the first women pilots took their rightful place in the open skies. For a country on the brink of defining change, they would become symbols of hope, daring, and the unstoppable American spirit. And for generations to come, their actions would pave the way for others to step into the brave unknown and learn to fly... Written by female pilot and member of the original Mercury 13 Gene Nora Jessen, Sky Girls celebrates the strength and smarts of these trailblazing women, and sits perfectly on the shelf next to The Radium Girls, Hidden Figures, or Code Girls.

An exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and reshaped the rules of society. Women physicists and astronomers from around the world have transformed science and society, but the critical roles they played in their fields are not always well-sung. Her Space, Her Time, authored by award-winning quantum physicist Shohini Ghose, brings together the stories of these remarkable women to celebrate their indelible scientific contributions. In each chapter of the book, Ghose explores a scientific topic and explains how the women featured in that chapter revolutionized that area of physics and astronomy. In doing so, she also addresses particular aspects of women’s experiences in physics and astronomy: in the chapter on time, for instance, we learn of Henrietta Leavitt and Margaret Burbidge, who helped discover the big bang and the cosmic calendar; in the chapter on space exploration, we learn of Anigaduwagi (Cherokee) aerospace scientist Mary Golda Ross, who helped make the Moon landings possible; and in the chapter on subatomic particles, we learn of Marietta Blau, Hertha Wambacher, and Bibha Chowdhuri, who contributed to the discovery of the building blocks of the universe, and, in doing so, played a crucial role in determining who gets to do physics today. Engaging, accessible, and timely, Her Space, Her Time is a collective story of scientific innovation, inspirational leadership, and overcoming invisibility that will leave a lasting impression on any reader curious about the rule-breakers and trendsetters who illuminated our understanding of the universe. Some of the featured women scientists in the book Williamina Fleming Annie Jump Cannon Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Antonia Maury Henrietta Leavitt Margaret Burbidge Mary Golda Ross Dilhan Eryurt Claudia Alexander Joyce Neighbors Navajo women of Shiprock Harriet Brooks Marie Curie Lise Meitner Marietta Blau Hertha Wambacher Bibha Chowdhuri Wu Chien-Shiung Women of the Manhattan Project Vera Rubin

From NPR correspondent O' Brien comes this thrilling Young Readers' edition that celebrates a little-known slice of history wherein tenacious, trailblazing women braved all obstacles to achieve greatness in the skies. Photos.

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