Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight Mystery_Gift_Guide As a reporter from CNN

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Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight Mystery_Gift_Guide As a reporter from CNNSpaceflight historian Amy Shira Teitel tells the riveting story of the female pilots who each dreamed of being the first American woman in space. When the space age dawned in the late 1950s, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth centuryman or woman. She had led the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots during the Second World War, was the first woman to break the sound barrier, ran her own luxury