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High flyers 15 inspiring women aviators and astronauts

"These 15 women fly outside the lines. Soar beside Black Hawk helicopter pilot turned politician Tammy Duckworth, hot air balloonist Edgora McEwan, or medevac pilot Dede Murawsky. Higher up, meet commercial and military aviators such as the Coast Guard's Ronaqua Russell, the first African American f...

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Main Author: Staats, Ann McCallum, 1965- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2022]
Series:Women of power (Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects:
Women air pilots > Biography > Young adult nonfiction.
Women astronauts > Biography > Young adult nonfiction.
Women in aeronautics > Biography > Young adult nonfiction.
Biographies > Young adult.
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Table of Contents:
  • Brooke Roman: Flying over Alaska
  • Tammy Duckworth: Pilot turned politician
  • Edgora McEwan: On the rise
  • Dede Murawsky: Horseback to medevac
  • Anne Macdonald: A rank above
  • Tammie Jo Shults: Flying past the noes
  • Katie Higgins Cook: Blue Angel icon
  • Olga Custodio: Where there's a will
  • Kimberly Scott Ford: The glide-path forward
  • Ronaqua Russell: Semper Paratus--always ready
  • Mae Jemison: No limits
  • Ellen Ochoa: Music among the stars
  • Samantha Cristoforetti: Home in space
  • Karen Nyberg: Space artist
  • Anousheh Ansari: Entrepreneur in space.

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