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Robert Pearlman
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posted 01-15-2016 04:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
To the Stars! The First American Woman to Walk in Space
by Carmella Van Vleet and Kathy Sullivan
with illustrations by Nicole Wong
Kathy Sullivan wanted to go everywhere. She loved blueprints and maps. She loved languages and the ocean. She didn’t like the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” She wanted to explore and do exciting things that girls weren’t supposed to be able to do. Only men had the exciting jobs.

Kathy liked fishing and swimming; flying planes and studying science. That’s what she liked and that’s what she decided to do with her life. She followed her heart and eventually became a NASA astronaut and the first woman to walk in space. Kathy wanted to see the whole world and so she did: from space!

Backmatter includes further information about Dr. Sullivan and her career, as well as other famous firsts made by women astronauts.
  • Age Range: 5 - 8 years
  • Hardcover: 40 pages
  • Charlesbridge (January 12, 2016)
  • ISBN-10: 1580896448
  • ISBN-13: 978-1580896443

Hart Sastrowardoyo
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posted 01-15-2016 08:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hart Sastrowardoyo   Click Here to Email Hart Sastrowardoyo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The NASA meatball was never on the port wing and the crew hatch is missing.

eurospace
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posted 01-16-2016 02:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for eurospace   Click Here to Email eurospace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Also, no astronaut was ever that large, measuring probably 10 meters in size.

Is that artistic licence?

Hart Sastrowardoyo
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posted 01-20-2016 10:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hart Sastrowardoyo   Click Here to Email Hart Sastrowardoyo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The author will be doing a signing on the Intrepid 11:30 a.m. 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Feb. 19.

ColinBurgess
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posted 01-20-2016 11:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Just to clarify on Hart's post, it is Carmella Van Vleet who is doing the signing on Intrepid that day, not Kathy Sullivan.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 01-20-2016 11:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Last week I asked Kathy (Sullivan) if she would be doing any signings in support of this book's release. Her current position as NOAA Administrator precludes her from doing so.

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