The stories behind the skill.

"On 16 January 1930, a 22-year-old Royal Air Force cadet n..."

"She flew from Dover to France in fog. The Titanic sank the next day."

"She learned to fly in a Cessna 185 on floats. Then she became untouchable."

"She called herself Chaika. The world called her history."

"She went to space with a Stanford PhD and a five-person crew."

"They passed the same tests as Glenn. NASA said no anyway."

"February 12, 2009"

"000 miles"

"Yeager trained her. Then she outran him."

"She brought 148 people down on one engine and a prayer."

"1,074 women. 77 types of aircraft. And then they were told to go home."

"117 hours"

"16 feet"

"000 feet"

"243 feet"

"372 mph"

"From the back seat of a T-38 to the left seat of Columbia."

"Great Britain is an island again."

"665 days. Ten spacewalks. And she was just getting started."

"000 feet"

"July 22, 1933"

"175 days"

"16 hours"

"Reason distinguished between *active failures*—the unsafe..."