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Women Spacefarers

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Valentina Tereshkova: The Icon of Soviet Female Emancipation
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    Chapter 2 Svetlana Savitskaya: Twice in Space—The Second Soviet First
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    Chapter 3 Sally Ride: America’s Pioneering Woman in Space
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    Chapter 4 Judith Resnik: The Second “Shuttlenaut”
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    Chapter 5 Christa McAuliffe: “NASA Teacher in Space”
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    Chapter 6 Kathryn D. Sullivan: The First American Spacewalker
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    Chapter 7 Anna Lee Fisher: The First Mother in Space
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    Chapter 8 Margaret Rhea Seddon: The First Wedding Among NASA Astronauts
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    Chapter 9 Shannon Lucid: The First American Woman to Participate in a Long-Duration Mission
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    Chapter 10 Bonnie J. Dunbar: The First Female Astrocosmonaut in History
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    Chapter 11 Mary L. Cleave: Flying at Age 14
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    Chapter 12 Ellen Baker: An Internist Physician on the Shuttle
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    Chapter 13 Kathryn Thornton: The “Space Walker Mom”
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    Chapter 14 Marsha Ivins: Aspiring Astronaut at 19
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    Chapter 15 Linda M. Godwin: Physics and Astronomy
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    Chapter 16 Helen Sharman: The First Briton in Space
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    Chapter 17 Tamara Jernigan: An Astrophysicist Out Among the Stars
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    Chapter 18 Millie Hughes-Fulford: The First Female Payload Specialist
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    Chapter 19 Roberta Bondar: The Pioneer of Space-Medicine Research
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    Chapter 20 Nancy Jan Davis: Growing Up with the Saturn Rockets
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    Chapter 21 Mae Jemison: Our Limits Are the Stars
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    Chapter 22 Susan J. Helms: Three-Star General
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    Chapter 23 Ellen Ochoa: “Reach for the Stars and Let Nothing Limit Your Potential!”
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    Chapter 24 Janice Voss: Visits the International Space Station as a Cygnus Craft
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    Chapter 25 Nancy Currie-Gregg: A Passion for Flying and Concern for Safety
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    Chapter 26 Chiaki Mukai: The First Japanese Astronaut
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    Chapter 27 Elena Kondakova: The First Woman to Take Part in a Long-Duration Space Mission
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    Chapter 28 Eileen Collins: The First Woman “Shuttlenaut” in the Driver’s Seat
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    Chapter 29 Wendy Lawrence: The First Woman Astronaut of the US Navy
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    Chapter 30 Mary E. Weber: From Skydiving to Stellar Strategies
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    Chapter 31 Cady Coleman: The Colonel Playing the Flute in Space
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    Chapter 32 Claudie Haigneré: The First European Space Agency Female Astronaut
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    Chapter 33 Susan Still Kilrain: The Second Woman to Ever Pilot the Shuttle
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    Chapter 34 Kalpana Chawla: The Regret of Not Officially Visiting Her Native Country
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    Chapter 35 Kathryn Hire: The First American Woman Assigned to a Combat Aircrew
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    Chapter 36 Janet Kavandi: The Rewards of Perseverance and Tenacity
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    Chapter 37 Julie Payette: “To Assemble a Ship in the Ocean During a Storm”
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    Chapter 38 Pamela Melroy, the Second and Last Woman to Command a Shuttle
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    Chapter 39 Peggy Whitson: The First Woman Commander of the International Space Station
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    Chapter 40 Sandra Magnus: Soaring to New Heights
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    Chapter 41 Laurel B. Clark: From Deep Oceans to the Stars
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    Chapter 42 Stephanie Wilson: “Madam Robotics Expert”
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    Chapter 43 Lisa Nowak: The First Woman Astronaut Ever Dismissed from NASA
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    Chapter 44 Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper: From Diver to Astronaut
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    Chapter 45 Anousheh Ansari: The First Iranian Spacewoman
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    Chapter 46 Sunita Williams: A Marathon Runner in Space
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    Chapter 47 Joan Higginbotham: An Unplanned Adventure
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    Chapter 48 Tracy Dyson: The Lead Vocalist for the All-Astronaut Band Max Q
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    Chapter 49 Barbara Morgan: “I’ll Fly with the Eyes, Ears, the Heart and Mind of a Teacher”
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    Chapter 50 Yi So-Yeon: Korean “Spaceflight Participant”
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    Chapter 51 Karen Nyberg: The Marathoner Engineer Who Competes with the Space Station
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    Chapter 52 Megan McArthur: An Aerospace Engineer Riding a Pedal-Powered Submarine
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    Chapter 53 Nicole Stott: A Steady Flying Passion
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    Chapter 54 Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger: From Space Camp to Space Station
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    Chapter 55 Naoko Yamazaki: Astronaut for 4088 Days
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    Chapter 56 Shannon Walker: The First Native Houstonian Astronaut to Fly into Space with Russians
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    Chapter 57 Liu Yang: The First Female Taikonaut
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    Chapter 58 Wang Yaping: A Live Lesson from the “Heavenly Palace”
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    Chapter 59 Elena Serova: The First Russian Woman Cosmonaut on the International Space Station
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    Chapter 60 Samantha Cristoforetti: A New Record for Endurance in Space for a Woman
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Chapter title
Marsha Ivins: Aspiring Astronaut at 19
Chapter number 14
Book title
Women Spacefarers
Published by
Springer International Publishing, March 2017
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-34048-7_14
Book ISBNs
978-3-31-934047-0, 978-3-31-934048-7
Authors

Umberto Cavallaro