Liberté’s Reviews > Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars > Status Update

Honestly, the author is *way* too fixated on pregnancy and keeps writing about conversations she has no way to have documented. This barely a history and I've sped the book up to 2.5x speed.

I'm back to trying to read this disaster of a 'history' book. Here's a sample in the midst of Chapter 2 about the *women who worked as JPL's computers*: "[Susan] told her mother after the wedding that she didn't want kids right away... [Her mother] wouldn't put any pressure on her daughter yet, since she knew that the fierce independence of a 20 year old girl often softened with time into the desire for motherhood."

I just want a women in space history book that is written like an actual history book and not focused on what the women were wearing or how they curled their hair one day, if such a thing could even reliably be researched decades after the fact.