The final frontier.(Sue Nelson's "Wally Funk's Race for Space")
Wally will have to swallow three feet of rubber hose and drink a pint of radioactive water; later, Wally will head to Oklahoma City to spend a record ten and a half hours in an isolation tank, immersed in water and complete darkness and silence: an attempt to simulate the weightless darkness of spac...
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| Published in: | New Statesman 2018, Vol.147 (5442), p.47-47 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Wally will have to swallow three feet of rubber hose and drink a pint of radioactive water; later, Wally will head to Oklahoma City to spend a record ten and a half hours in an isolation tank, immersed in water and complete darkness and silence: an attempt to simulate the weightless darkness of space. [...]the dreams of the Mercury 13 were extinguished by a series of 1962 Congressional hearings that ensured that women would not become part of the space programme for a long while: "The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order," testified John Glenn. To date, she has more than 18,000 hours of flying under her belt; in 1971 she became the first woman successfully to complete the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) General Aviation Operations Inspector Academy course; she was the first woman promoted to specialist in the FAA Systems Worthiness Analysis Program and the first woman to serve as air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, DC. |
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| ISSN: | 1364-7431 1758-924X |