From a book review in the New York Times by Melissa L. Sevigny headlined “When the Portal to Space Travel Opened, ‘The Six’ Stepped Through.”:

It’s difficult to imagine a place more coded as masculine than the cockpit of a rocket ship. The tales of the space race enshrined in American history too often center on white men and elevate machismo. From the first pages of “The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts,” the science journalist Loren Grush reclaims this place as female.