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NASA astronaut Jan Davis recounts career, father’s POW experience in new book

September 28, 2023 NeRD

Davis: I was fortunate enough to be hired (at NASA) as an engineer in 1979, before the space shuttle flew in ’81. They were trying to ramp up people to work on not only the shuttle, but also things that flew on the shuttle, which is why I worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, which was amazing. They had just selected the first group of astronauts to fly in the space shuttle in 1978: 35 astronauts, of which there were six women. So for the first time, the astronauts were…

Learn the true stories of NASA’s 1st women astronauts in new book ‘The Six’ (exclusive)

September 26, 2023 NeRD

NASA changed forever in 1978 with the addition of new kinds of astronauts. That year, NASA accepted women and people of color into the astronaut corps for the first time, and the new book “The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts” (Scribner, 2023) by Loren Grush shares the true firsthand stories of the female pioneers in that group. Grush’s book focuses on the stories of astronauts Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid and Rhea Seddon, while also talking about the decades of discrimination…