thank you for having me. i will give you a second. we can see as we discussed the book today. there is nothing specific. this was a wonderful new book that just came out. just to do a quick introduction. of texas women s university. maybe not as home of the archives. and this is a book that is very special for her. i m sure they re going to talk about the journey to getting this book to publication. i want to start. how did you get started on this topic and when did you learn about it. what hooked you in. thank you so much for having me. i would like to show this picture it so siri. this is the moment in time where i met carol bailey and curtis pitt. in all of the aviation people who might be on here. one of the coolest airplanes ever was designed by him. i went by myself and couldn t get any friends to go with. and someday pointed out that the shade of the hangover there. and he introduced me to carol. as the 1981 aromatic championship. i found out that she formed that in wo
seeker and has hosted numerous space and science related shows. among them, nasa s unexplained files. she gives talks about space night all over the u.s. and america. please give a warm welcome to amy teitel. [applause] bring it down to short level. good morning and thank you for coming out to listen to me talk first thing in the morning for some, including myself. something weird about hearing your bioread like that. i ll try to live up to everything that was just intention l said about me. intensely said. i want to start with the brief who here has heard of the story of the so-called mercury 13? oh, look at the number of hands, maybe 15 or 20 or sometimes called the first lady astronaut trainees. i don t no way to print my talk so i ll read this off my phone. if you don t know the story over the mercury 13 i ll explain it later. basically it s the story of everything in 13 women trained for space flight in the 1960s and can do on nasa with the goal of writing the wr
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