Any vestige of ‘Free Speech’ has become a thing of the past and there is a return to the Thought Police of the Communist era. Horrifying acid attacks, where acid is thrown on a young woman, destroying her face, never before seen in Europe, are barely mentioned. Break and Entry now no longer even merits a police inspection. Crimes against property and person are largely ignored. Rape of women and children has reached unprecedented levels. Policing in most of the West has sunk to an all-time low. Even the most egregious terrorist outbreaks are passed over by politicians as something which occurs in big cities and the indigenous population should simply get used to it. The ancient, magnificent, awe inspiring Christian Churches which had taken centuries to build, are burning all over Europe, and that tragedy and violence on the streets are becoming so commonplace that it barely is mentioned by the media. The West continues its precipitous decline. She lives in Norman, Oklahoma.ĭownload To Slip the Surly Bonds of Earth Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle Karen Bush Gibson is the author of Women Aviators, Native American History for Kids, and three dozen other books for young readers. Their story, and the stories of pilots, physicists, and doctors who followed them, demonstrate the vital role women have played in the quest for scientific understanding. Though they matched and sometimes surpassed their male counterparts in performance, they were ultimately denied the opportunity to head out to the launching pad. Learn, too, about the Mercury 13, American women selected by NASA in the late 1950s to train for spaceflight. Read about Eileen Collins, the first woman to command the Space Shuttle Peggy Whitson, who has logged more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space as well as astronauts from Japan, Canada, Italy, South Korea, France, and more. In Women in Space, author Karen Bush Gibson profiles 23 pioneers, all of whom achieved greatness in orbit. And by breaking the stratospheric ceiling, these women forged a path for many female astronauts, cosmonauts, and mission specialists to follow. It would be 19 years before another woman got a chance-cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982-followed by American astronaut Sally Ride a year later. When Valentina Tereshkova blasted off aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, she became the first woman to rocket into space. Download Women in Space Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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