Integrating Women into the Astronaut Corps Politics and Logistics at NASA, 1972-2004

• Main Author: Foster, Amy E. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2011
• Subjects: Gender studies: women; Gender studies: women & girls
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female astronaut into space? In answering this question, Foster recounts the complicated history of integrating women into NASA's astronaut corps....