A Perfect Cup of Tea Book Club - The Six by Loren Grush

This month’s book is The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts by Loren Grush.  Tea/Coffee served at 2pm. Discussion at 2:30pm. Please bring your own mug!

NASA realized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender. From a candidate pool of 8,000, six elite women were selected in 1978: Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon. In [this book], ... journalist Loren Grush shows these brilliant and courageous women enduring claustrophobic--and sometimes deeply sexist--media attention, undergoing rigorous survival training, and preparing for years to take multi-million-dollar payloads into orbit