First women in space

By Terry Barber

Subjects: Lectures et morceaux choisis pour nouveaux alphabétisés, Readers for new literates, Women, biography, Astronautics, biography, Biographies, Biography, Femmes astronautes, Women astronauts, Anglais (Langue)

Description: Reading level: 2 [yellow]. Learn about three women who had the "right stuff": Valentina Tereshkova, Sally Ride, and Roberta Bondar. The U.S.S.R. sent Valentina Tereshkova into space in 1963. Twenty years later, Sally Ride was the first American woman to fly in space. --Publisher.