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SUMMARY:Amy Shira Teitel | In Her Voice
DESCRIPTION:The first In Her Voice event of 2020 will feature Amy Shira Teitel. Amy will be discussing and signing copies of her new book\, Fighting for Space. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nWhen: \nWednesday\, February 26 \n6 to 8pm \n(presentation begins at 6:30) \nWhere: \nBen McNally Books \n366 Bay Street \n  \nThis is a free event. You can register on Eventbrite. \n\n \nWhen the space age dawned in the late 1950s\, Jackie Cochran held more propeller and jet flying records than any pilot of the twentieth century-man 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 cosmetics company\, and counted multiple presidents among her personal friends. She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb\, twenty-five years Jackie’s junior and a record-holding pilot in her own right\, who finagled her way into taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts. The prospect of flying in space quickly became her obsession. \nWhile the American and international media spun the shocking story of a “woman astronaut” program\, Jackie and Jerrie struggled to gain control of the narrative\, each hoping to turn the rumored program into their own ideal reality-an issue that ultimately went all the way to Congress. \nThis dual biography of audacious trailblazers Jackie Cochran and Jerrie Cobb presents these fascinating and fearless women in all their glory and grit\, using their stories as guides through the shifting social\, political\, and technical landscape of the time. \n\nAmy Shira Teitel is a spaceflight historian\, author\, and public speaker who\, much like her subjects\, is one of the few academically trained young women in her field. She earned a bachelor’s degree with combined honors in history of science and technology and classics as well as a master’s in science and technology studies before leaving academia for popular science writing. She has since written for more than two dozen websites including the BBC and Time magazine online\, earned a Group Achievement Award from NASA as part of the New Horizons mission to Pluto team\, and appears frequently as an expert interviewee in a number of TV shows and documentaries. She also maintains her blog\, Vintage Space\, and its companion YouTube channel. \n000000
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