It takes the average reader 3 hours and 32 minutes to read Integrating Women Into the Astronaut Corps by Amy E. Foster
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Why, Amy E. Foster asks, did it take two decades after the Soviet Union launched its first female cosmonaut for the United States to send its first female astronaut into space? In answering this question, Foster recounts the complicated history of integrating women into NASA’s astronaut corps. NASA selected its first six female astronauts in 1978. Foster examines the political, technological, and cultural challenges that the agency had to overcome to usher in this new era in spaceflight. She shows how NASA had long developed progressive hiring policies but was limited in executing them by a...
Integrating Women Into the Astronaut Corps by Amy E. Foster is 207 pages long, and a total of 53,199 words.
This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 65% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 50 minutes to read Integrating Women Into the Astronaut Corps aloud.
Integrating Women Into the Astronaut Corps is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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