Loren Grush is a reporter for Bloomberg News specializing in all things space. Previously, she was a senior science reporter for the technology news website The Verge and hosted the online show Space Craft, which took her across the country to explore what it takes to train for space. The daughter of two NASA engineers, Grush grew up surrounded by rocket scientists. She has also been published in the New York Times, Popular Science, and Nautilus magazine, and has appeared on several TV networks as an expert commentator.
A vivid account of women's battle for spaceflight equality... Grush
paints a compelling picture of the rigours faced by these driven
and accomplished women... But The Six also has room for the
entertaining trivia of zero-gravity life
*Guardian*
Tales of the space race enshrined in American history too often
center on white men and elevate machismo...Science journalist Loren
Grush reclaims this place as female...Grush skillfully weaves a
story that, at its heart, is about desire: not a nation's desire to
conquer space, but the longing of six women to reach heights that
were forbidden to them... Like space travel itself, The Six widens
our vision of what it means to belong to 'the whole family of
humankind'
*New York Times*
Remarkable...Grush has an important story to tell, and she tells it
well. An inspiring story of the first American women to go into
space, charting their own course for the horizon
*Kirkus*
Engrossing...a well-rounded narrative...The Six highlights the
contributions of women in science and the challenges they face
*Booklist*
[Creates] an intimacy that makes [each astronaut] utterly
memorable....Grush makes it thrillingly clear: These six women rose
far above such misogyny, smashing our planet's highest ceilings as
they soared
*BookPage*
Loren Grush's suspenseful, meticulously observed account lifts the
curtain on the moment when Neil Armstrong's 'one small step for
man' expanded to encompass the talent, ambition, and perseverance
of America's first female astronauts. The Six is a well-reported
and enlightening read.
*Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Hidden Figures*
Strap yourself in for a thrilling ride with genuine American heroes
- six women who proved you don't need the right plumbing to have
the right stuff! Loren Grush deftly recounts the true grit and deep
talent that smashed the celestial glass ceiling. A must-read for
explorers on Earth and beyond.
*Lynn Sherr, author of Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in
Space*
With The Six, Loren Grush has delivered a dazzling look into the
lives of the first U.S. women to venture into space. Through its
deep reporting and vivid storytelling, the book illuminates the
immense obstacles and tragedies these women faced on their way to
inspiring the world with their audacious, courageous spirits. This
is a story that had to be told, and Grush has told it
brilliantly.
*Ashlee Vance, author of Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X, and the Quest
for a Fantastic Future*
In 1978 six accomplished women were selected as NASA's first female
astronauts, entering the high-tech, high-testosterone world of
human spaceflight at a time of great change in American society.
How did these trailblazers survive, adapt, and eventually excel as
Space Shuttle crew members? How did their lives change? Loren
Grush's The Six tells this triumphant and sometimes tragic story as
skillfully and completely as it ever will be told, dramatically
showing events through the eyes and ears of the women
themselves.
*Michael Cassutt, author of The Astronaut Maker*
NASA is finally giving women the same opportunities as men-serving
with Mission Control, experimenting in laboratories, and flying
rockets. But it has taken six decades to reach this moment. In The
Six, Loren Grush recreates the crucial turning point when America
turned toward spaceflight equality, inviting six brave and
brilliant women to become NASA's first female astronauts. This
compelling new book blends history, humor, and heroism to bring to
life those gutsy space pioneers and their struggles.
*Eric Berger, author of Liftoff*
Loren Grush has painted compellingly intimate portraits of a group
of brave astronauts who changed the face of NASA-and exploration-by
opening frontiers on the ground on their way to space.
Well-researched and gripping, The Six is an inspiring and, at
times, maddening tale that reminds us what the definition of hero
is and who gets to carry that mantle.
*Christian Davenport, author of The Space Barons*
The Six is one of the most important stories to come out of the
space age. It's also one of the most poignant and, at times,
tragic. One can't help but cheer for these women of destiny as
their journey unfolds-an edge-of-the-seat tale that is in good
hands with this author. A superb researcher, Loren Grush reveals
not only what it was like to be the first American women to fly in
space but also what it took to confront an entrenched and powerful
bureaucracy fearful of change,
*Homer Hickman, author of Rocket Boys*
A powerful, gripping, and at times heartbreaking tale of human
courage in the face of impossible odds. The Six reminds us of the
price that women paid to join men in space-and why these women
still matter today.
*Keith O'Brien, author of Fly Girls and Paradise Falls*
Propulsive, startling, and deeply moving, The Six captures the
odyssey of America's first women astronauts, tracking them in
delightful detail from the ground to the sky, from earthbound
battles against sexism to stunning feats performed in literal
orbit. Loren Grush is masterful
*Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story
of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s
Enemies*
Today there is nothing unusual about a woman flying in space,
walking in space, or living in space, which makes it difficult to
imagine what it was like forty-five years ago for the six women who
broke the highest of all glass ceilings to become astronauts. As
Loren Grush shows in this illuminating book, they overcame daunting
obstacles to make their indelible marks on Earth and in space
*Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the
Apollo Astronauts*
A spirited group biography...The Six joins a growing list of books
heralding women's achievements in scientific settings where their
presence was unusual or unwelcome
*Wall Street Journal*
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