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For ages 3 & up
Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where we've been
proving that Newtonian mechanics rather than the will of the gods brought comets into our celestial neighborhood
Written by Taylor Baldwin Kiland
The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts 24952 For ages 3 & upDuring the 1960s and 1970s, when NASA embarked on its historic missions to the moon, women were initially excluded from the astronaut corps. The rationale behind this decision was the belief that only military test pilots, a profession exclusively dominated by men at the time, possessed the necessary qualities. This era was marked by the discouragement of women from pursuing careers in science and the perception that they were unfit for space travel.
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