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Title: The Mercury 13 : The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight by Martha Ackmann ISBN: 0-375-50744-2 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (10 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: An important story
Comment: "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them." When Louisa May Alcott wrote these words, she likely had no idea that one day women would not only look beyond the sunshine, but travel beyond the stars to brave new frontiers in outer space.

Thanks to the brave and trailblazing women of the Mercury 13, today there are dozens of women throughout America's space program who are changing history: Administrators and managers; engineers, technologists, and astrobiologists; astronauts who are mission specialists, pilots and commanders; astronomers and astrophysicists, biologists, chemists, computer scientists, system specialists and programmers; aeronautics, aerospace, biological, chemical and biomedical engineers; educators who reach out to the public; computer and design engineers; environmental specialists and geologists; pharmacologists and psychologists.... The list goes on and on.

In her book, "Composing a Life," Mary Catherine Bates aptly equates life with a work in progress, an improvisatory art in which each individual learns to combine familiar and unfamiliar components in response to new situations. This is true for men and women in all walks of life, but it is especially relevant for women in aeronautics. For not only are they taking their well-deserved places next to the brave men who fly combat missions and pilot space shuttles -they are also redefining the roles of women in a society that still struggles with gender equality in all professions.

Kudos to Martha Ackmann and Lynn Sherr for telling the story of the Mercury 13!

Rating: 5
Summary: The Mercury 13 by Martha Ackmann
Comment: This book depicts the lives of women astronauts during a
period of American history when the space program had a
plurality of men. The period is the 50s and early 60s
when the contest between the USA and the Soviet Union heated
up in space. The book describes the successful launch of
Freedom 7 in 1961 despite some early problems. There are
many pictures of the astronauts depicting achievements during
the various milestones of the space program. Ultimately,
the Committee on Science and Astronauts concluded that the
advantages of having women astronauts merited a formal
program of research and study. This was a government action
long sought by women in the pursuit of careers as astronauts.
The book includes details of the experiences of Janey Hart-
an early astronaut and participant founder of NOW.
A report on this book would make a fine student project
for budding scientists.

Rating: 5
Summary: We've come a long way, baby....thank heavens!
Comment: "The Mercury 13" is an amazing story of how [discrimination] in the early years of the American space program shut women out. We should be ashamed that the Soviet Union had a woman in space decades before Sally Ride finally broke the gender barrier in the U.S. Martha Ackmann is to be congratulated for bringing the stories of these incredible and patriotic women to light.

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