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Two women and a whole lotta space

Sally Ride of the Little People, Big Dreams by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara

Journey to the Stars: Kalpana Chawla, Astronaut by Laurie Wallmark

August 29, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

In the 1960s it was Space: The Final Frontier.. We have come a long way since those words first graced our eyes and ears. We put a man on the moon, we put space crafts on Mars and we put several women there, too.  Women who would make history in ways other than being “the first” or almost first. Sally Ride was the first American woman, third in space. Kalpana Chawla would be the woman to represent that no matter where you come from, or […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: aakhee Mirchandani, Alona Millgram, Kalpana Chawla, Laurie Wallmark, Maitreyi Ghosh, Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, sally ride

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:624 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: aakhee Mirchandani, Alona Millgram, Kalpana Chawla, Laurie Wallmark, Maitreyi Ghosh, Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, sally ride ·
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Boldly Going Where No Woman had gone before (Well, that was the Soviet Union, but the US had firsts, too)

Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier by Jim Ottaviani

January 28, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier is not just a book about the Women of Space (the ones that inspired: calling Nichelle Nichols. And the ones that took the ride: calling Sally Ride. Sorry, must do one bad pun) but how they got there and what happened once they were. We see both the men and women who boldly went where no one went before. We see those who broken color and gender lines. We see the inner workings of training, the ships themselves and […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Aeronautics & Astronautics & Space Science, astronauts, Dr. Mary Cleave, female astronauts, Jim Ottaviani, Maris Wicks’, nasa, sally ride, Science & Technology, space, Space flight, Valentina Tereshkova

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:53 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Non-Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Aeronautics & Astronautics & Space Science, astronauts, Dr. Mary Cleave, female astronauts, Jim Ottaviani, Maris Wicks’, nasa, sally ride, Science & Technology, space, Space flight, Valentina Tereshkova ·
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A very straightforward biography of a noteworthy woman.

Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr

March 1, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

Turns out I didn’t know very much at all about Sally Ride. I mean, what I knew about her was very limited, and half wrong. I knew that her name was Sally Ride, and that she was the first woman in space (she wasn’t, she was the first American woman in space; the first woman was cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who Sally once met covertly). So this book was very interesting for me, just in terms of learning about this fascinating woman, even though the writing […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #biography, astronauts, lynn sherr, narfna, nasa, non fiction, sally ride

narfna's CBR12 Review No:20 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #biography, astronauts, lynn sherr, narfna, nasa, non fiction, sally ride ·
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Sally’s Ride

March 12, 2018 by Caitlin_D Leave a Comment

“During her sixty-one years on the planet – minus 343 hours, 47 minutes, 32 seconds in space – she joined, then helped lead, the boldest steps yet taken to explore and protect the big blue marble that is our home.” Even if I woke up tomorrow morning and was 60 pounds lighter with a complete understanding of astrophysics I would not want to go to space. While I have no desires to go to space it has nothing to do with not being allowed (except […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: lynn sherr, sally ride, Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space

Caitlin_D's CBR10 Review No:33 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: lynn sherr, sally ride, Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space ·
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