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02161cam a2200265 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780763636111 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
0763636118 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
629.450092/273 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Stone, Tanya Lee. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Almost astronauts : |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Somerville, Mass. : |
| Name of publisher |
Candlewick Press, |
| Year of publication |
2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
133 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. (some col.) ; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"The true story of the "Mercury 13" women"-Cover. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
"T minus thirty-eight years" -- "I jumped at the offer" -- "Not a meaningful test!" -- "Mommy's going to the moon!" -- "It was too good to be true" -- "Regret to advise" -- "Let's stop this now!" -- "Jerrie Cobb isn't running this program. I am!" -- "The men go off and fight the wars and fly the airplanes" -- "NASA never had any intention of putting those women in space" -- "We want to see a woman driving the bus, not sitting in the back" -- "I am living proof that dreams do come true." |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape, any checklist would include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was another unspoken rule: you had to be a man. Here is the tale of thirteen women who proved that they were not only as tough as the toughest man but also brave enough to challenge the government. They were blocked by prejudice, jealousy, and the scrawled note of one of the most powerful men in Washington. But even though the Mercury 13 women did not make it into space, they did not lose, for their example empowered young women to take their place in the sky, piloting jets and commanding space capsules. Almost Astronauts is the story of thirteen true pioneers of the space age. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Women astronauts |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Women astronauts |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Sex discrimination against women |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008017487.html |
| 856 1# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/women_gallery/sitemap.htm |
| 856 1# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.twu.edu/library/wasp/index.htm |
| 856 1# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.sallyridescience.com |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
