Amy Shira Teitel

'Breaking the Chains of Gravity'

Bog | Engelsk

The incredible story of spaceflight before the establishment of NASA. NASAs history is a familiar story, one that typically peaks with Neil Armstrong taking his small step on the Moon in 1969. But Americas space agency wasnt created in a vacuum. It was as

'Fighting for Space'

Bog | Engelsk

Spaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than a