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For fans of The Astronaut Wives Club, The Mercury 13 reveals the little-known true story of the remarkable women who trained for NASA space flight. In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America’s first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys’ club at NASA and on Capitol Hill.

The Voice of the Wise Woman Podcast with Kristy Borbas is a sanctuary for the woman who is outwardly successful yet craves deeper fulfillment, heart-led living, and true soul alignment.In each episode, Kristy guides you beyond the busyness and endless to-do lists into a space of sacred presence and authentic self-connection. Through candid stories, ancient feminine wisdom, and practical embodiment practices, she explores what it means to release people-pleasing, integrate shadow parts like jealousy and shame, and embody your most authentic vibration.Drawing from her own journey including ...

The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical narratives by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy. This audiobook vividly describes how, before 1900, a woman who wanted to study the stars had to have a father, brother, or husband to provide entry, and how the considerable intellectual skills of women astronomers were still not enough to enable them to pry open doors of opportunity for much of the twentieth century. After decades of difficult struggles, women are closer to equality in astronomy than ever before.