Six -- Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts, The

Six scientists—Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, Rhea Seddon, Sally Ride, Judith Resnik, and Anna Lee Fisher—became the first American women astronauts. In the 1960s and 1970s, NASA excluded women from its astronaut corps by insisting on military test-pilot experience, a career women were barred from entering. When the 1980s began, the six joined NASA despite intense sexism. They trained, flew missions, and challenged barriers in a profession that had previously been restricted to men.