This is the story of the first 6 women picked for the Astronaut program for NASA in 1978. I am a big fan of space so I found this book very interesting.  Each astronaut has a chapter discussing their early life and their application as well as their specific Space Shuttle flights.  Not surprisingly each flight had some major issues that were not really well known at the time.  It does cover the Challenger explosion which killed one of the original six - Judy Resnick.  It also covers Sally Ride's illness and relationship with a women (that lasted almost 30 years but was not well known). I enjoyed all the stories and would recommend, especially for the stories that discussion around gender discrimination in the 70s including getting fired for being pregnant.  This changed when Congress passed the law you cannot discriminate on gender or color and was directly why NASA opened up applications for women and POC.