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    Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space
    Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space
    Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space
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    Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space

    Written by Libby Jackson

    Narrated by Michelle Ford

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    A groundbreaking compendium honoring the amazing true stories of fifty inspirational women who helped fuel some of the greatest achievements in space exploration from the nineteenth century to today—including Hidden Figure’s Mary Jackson and Katherine Johnson as well as former NASA Chief Astronaut Peggy Whitson, the record-holding American biochemistry researcher who has spent the most cumulative time in space.

    When Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the lunar module, Eagle, he famously spoke of “one small step for man.” But Armstrong would not have reached the moon without the help of women. Today, females across the earth and above it—astronauts and mathematicians, engineers and physicists, test pilots and aerospace psychophysiologists—are pushing the boundaries of human knowledge, helping us to understand the universe and our place in it. Galaxy Girls celebrates more than four dozen extraordinary women from around the globe whose contributions have been fundamental to the story of humankind’s quest to reach the stars.

    From Ada Lovelace in the nineteenth century to the “colored computers” behind the Apollo missions, from the astronauts breaking records on the International Space Station to the scientific pioneers blazing the way to Mars, Galaxy Girls goes boldly where few books have gone before, celebrating this band of heroic sisters and their remarkable and often little known scientific achievements. Written by Libby Jackson, a leading British expert in human space flight, Galaxy Girls will fire the imaginations of trailblazers of all ages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJun 5, 2018
    ISBN9780062879622
    Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space
    Author

    Libby Jackson

    Libby Jackson is one of Britain’s foremost human spaceflight experts, and is the Human Spaceflight and Microgravity Program Manager for the UK Space Agency. Libby’s career working in the space industry began when she applied for work experience at NASA at age seventeen from her secondary school in Kent. Weeks later she was sitting in mission control in Houston. Ten years later, and after completing a physics degree at Imperial College, she was back working at mission control for the European Space Agency in Munich. She was an instructor, a flight controller and finally a Columbus flight director on missions to the International Space Station. From 2014 to 2016, she managed the hugely successful UK Space Agency education and outreach program that supported Tim Peake’s mission.

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      For female STEM awareness this book is excellent. Included are women who surprised me until I realized how vital their contribution was to the space program such as the women who sewed the spacesuits. It includes women worldwide so I learned of individuals I had not heard of before. Layout of the book is one page of the woman’s achievements with an illustration opposite so this would be an excellent bedtime read and discussion due to being able to start and stop using the book. The one disappointment was not having photos of the women or their contribution, however the illustrations are stylistically uniform. What confuses me is this library copy was shelved in the adult nonfiction. I strongly believe it should be in the junior or youth section to inspire the next generation.