Promised the Moon: The untold story of the first women in the space race by Stephanie Nolen, Four Walls Eight Windows, $22.95, ISBN 1568582757
Reviewed by Stephen Baxter
“HERE is Seagull! Everything is fine…” It is 40 years since the first woman cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, flew into orbit in a Soviet Vostok spacecraft on 16 June 1963. Meanwhile a group of female American pilots had started astronaut training. Might that “one small step” onto the moon have been a woman’s?
In 1959 Randy Lovelace, chair of NASA’s Life Sciences Committee, recruited world-record-setting female pilot Jerrie Cobb to take tests that…
