Spectacular Women in Space
- ISBN-10
- 1896764886
- ISBN-13
- 9781896764887
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 111
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Author
- Sonia Gueldenpfennig
Description
Profiles ten women pioneers throughout history whose accomplishments made a name for themselves in space, beginning with Caroline Herschel, the first woman to discover a comet in the eighteenth-century.
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