The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight
by
Martha Ackmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2003
**For readers of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight.
In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s...