'For people who might be intimidated by others who have a calling, or know what they want to do, just look at the Six.'
Space.com: Before you took on this book, what did you think was missing from the publicly known stories of the Six at that time?There's been plenty written about them, and some of the Six themselves have written their own books, But I felt like they hadn't been examined as a group before, and I thought that might be really interesting. I was probably the same as most people of the general public: I knew of Sally Ride, but I really didn't know her story very well.
If you look at when they were first presented as a group to the public, when they [NASA] offered up the astronauts for interviews, all of the women were bombarded. They [and the] were staying at NASA until late in the evening, while the other new astronauts — the white men — got to go home early because nobody really wanted to talk to them. I think that was a harbinger of what was to come, because it really showed how fascinated with the women that the press and the media were.
NASA astronauts Kathryn Sullivan, left, and Sally Ride aboard space shuttle Challenger during the STS-41G mission in 1984, which was the first time a flight crew included two women. The Challenger accident was really the end of a chapter , and that's ultimately why I chose to end the book with it. I felt like it stopped one era of the
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