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Tonyq
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posted 08-11-2015 05:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tonyq   Click Here to Email Tonyq     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Inspired by the concurrent thread about Gemini related fiction, I'd like to pose the same challenge in relation to female astronauts and cosmonauts.

To set some parameters, can I suggest this is limited to the pre-space shuttle era, thus spanning roughly the period 1960 to 1980, and in a space programme that broadly reflects reality.

I am already aware of the "Fictional Astronauts" Wikipedia page, and indeed have contributed quite a few additions to it, but with my own searches now yielding less and less positive results, it is time to throw this challenge out to the cS community.

Thanks in anticipation of an avalanche of responses!

hermit
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posted 08-12-2015 03:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hermit   Click Here to Email hermit     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A good example would be VOYAGE (to Mars) by Stephen Baxter.

Tonyq
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posted 08-12-2015 08:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Tonyq   Click Here to Email Tonyq     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yes, that is exactly the sort of thing I had in mind, although it is quite well known.

Baxter's TITAN also includes a female taikonaut making China's first 'manned' spaceflight, in a craft which more or less exactly anticipated the Shenzhou programme, although being set in 2004, it is strictly speaking outside my parameters.

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