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Telescopes and space missions

Telescopes and space missions

Thirteen tales that must be told

04 Dec 2018
Taken from the December 2018 issue of Physics World.

Jessica Wade reviews Wally Funk’s Race for Space: the Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer by Sue Nelson

Wally Funk’s Race for Space: the Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer
Boundary-breakers Wally Funk (second from left) is a member of the Mercury 13 programme, shown here at a reunion in 1995. The other women are (from left): Gene Nora Jessen, Jerrie Cobb, Jerri Truhill, Sarah Rutley, Myrtle Cagle and Bernice Steadman. (Courtesy: NASA)
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Jessica Wade is a postdoc at the Centre for Plastic Electronics at Imperial College London. She set up the Women in Physics group at Imperial College and won the Institute of Physics’ Early Career Physics Communicator Award in 2015
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