Reaching for the Stars

Unabridged
Author: Kathryn Sullivan
Narrator: Kathryn Sullivan
Genres: Biographies, Science & Technology, Science & Technology, Astronomy, Lectures, Science, Biography
Publisher: Chautauqua Institution/ The Great Lecture Library
Date: December 2008
Length: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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Formats:
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Overview

Floating effortlessly in weightlessness, Kathryn Sullivan glided into Challenger's open cargo bay in 1984 as the first American woman to walk in space. On two later missions, she helped launch the Hubble Space Telescope and made an extensive study of earth's resources.The title of her lecture is Reaching for the Stars.