To The Stars

Umberto Cavallaro is founder and current chairman of AS.IT.AF (Italian Astrophilately Society) and editor of its quarterly Journal AD*ASTRA since 2008. His professional activity led him to cooperate for many years with ESA, European Space Agency. He produced several articles and researches on history of space exploration, which were published in American and in European Magazines in USA, UK, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy. Author of the books “Propaganda e Pragmatismo in gara per la conquista della Luna” (“Propaganda & Pragmatism in race to the Moon” Impremix, Torino 2011, 168 pp.), “The Race to the Moon -  Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks: A Story of Puffery vs the Pragmatic” (Springer International Publishing, 2018, XI + 338 pp.) and “Donne nello Spazio” (“Women in Space”, Mursia, Milano 2015, 420 pp. He has translated into Italian several publications, including the book “The All-American Boys” (“I Ragazzi della Luna”, Mursia Milan 2009, 610 pp.) by Walter Cunningham (Apollo VII astronaut).

• Chapter 1. The First Ladies of Space.- Chapter 2. Performing Science and Engineering in Space.- Chapter 3. Outside the Spacecraft.- Chapter 4. Madam Robotics Expert.- Chapter 5. The Right Stuff.- Chapter 6. Military Women Astronauts.- Chapter 7. Spaceflight Participants.

“A fascinating book, which is probably best read a few stories at a time, like consuming a large box of candy of many different flavours.” (Virginia Trimble, The Observatory, Vol. 144 (1299), 2024)