Ian Sales: Then Will the Great Ocean Wash Deep Above

It was not until fifteen years later, on 16 January 1978, that the first women were selected by NASA as astronauts, and a further five years when, on 18 June 1983, the first American woman, Dr Sally Ride, went into space. A woman would not command a flight into space until 23 July 1999: Eileen M Collins, on STS-93.

Picture credits: cover of Look magazine, 2 February 1960, featuring Betty Skelton; Jerrie Cobb undergoing medical testing at the Lovelace Clinic ( Life magazine collection); cover of September 1961 issue of McCall’s magazine; Valentina Tereshkova (NASA); Jerrie Cobb and Janey Hart testifying before the congressional subcommittee ( Life magazine collection).

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_Life: ‘Damp Prelude to Space’ (1960, Life, Vol 43 No 17)

_NASA: PRESS CONFERENCE MERCURY ASTRONAUT TEAM TRANSCRIPT (1959, NASA, No ISBN)

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40 thAnniversary of the Mercury 7

http://history.nasa.gov/40thmerc7/intro.htm

A Space About Books About Space

http://spacebookspace.wordpress.com/

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http://history.nasa.gov/afj/

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http://history.nasa.gov/afj/aohindex.htm

Beyond Apollo

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/beyondapollo

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http://bigbluetechnews.wordpress.com/tag/uss-thresher/

Encyclopedia Astronautica

http://www.astronautix.com/

Gemini: Bridge to the Moon

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/gemini/

Johnson Space Centre History Portal

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/index.html

Mercury: America’s First Astronauts

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mercury/

Mercury 13 — Women of the Mercury Era

http://www.mercury13.com/

National Reconnaissance Office (declassified records)

http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/HEXAGON%20Recovery.html

Naval History Blog (US Naval Institute)

http://www.navalhistory.org/2012/01/25/trieste-achieves-depth-record

Naval History Magazine, Vol 27 No 1 (online article)

http://www.usni.org/magazines/navalhistory/2013-01/navys-deep-ocean-grab

The Space Review

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1720/1

USS Scorpion Search Operations Phase II

http://apache67.blogspot.co.uk/

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/

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ISBN 978-0-9571883-7-2 (limited)

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Edited by Jim Steel

Cover by Kay Sales