Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream

Author: Tanya Lee Stone Almost Astronauts tells the story of a serious attempt to include women in the 1960s space program.In 1960 and 61, nineteen women went to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to participate in the rigorous tests given to the Mercury program astronauts. Randy Lovelace performed the testing at his family clinic, the Lovelace Medical […]