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Geraldyn M. Cobb (March 5, 1931 – March 18, 2019), commonly known as Jerrie Cobb, was an American pilot and aviator.She was also part of the Mercury 13, a group of women who underwent physiological screening tests at the same time as the original Mercury Seven astronauts, and was the first to complete each of the tests.
Jerrie Cobb was acknowledged in Clare Boothe Luce's Life article, [2] highlighting her various flying awards and achieving four major world records. In 1959, she established the world record for long-distance nonstop flight and the record of the world light-plane speed.
Jerrie Cobb with a Mercury capsule (c. early 1960s) In 1959, after their research project Woman in Space Earliest of the Air Force Air Research and Development Command was not permitted, Don Flickinger and William Randolph Lovelace II subsequently formed a group of thirteen women US pilots, [9] dubbed by the American press as the "Mercury 13 ...
At this time, Jerrie Cobb, a female award-winning pilot, was pressing for women to be allowed to become astronauts. In 1961 she was one of thirteen women known as the Mercury 13 who had passed the same medical evaluation tests given to the Mercury Seven astronauts as part of a USAF project that assessed the capability of women for spaceflight ...
When Haverstick suggested that June Cobb had flown a plane waiting at Redbird Airport, Dallas, on November 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was killed, which had been standing on the runway for an hour with engines running, and was rumored to be the get-away plane for Lee Harvey Oswald, Jerrie Cobb reacted strongly, but gathered herself and ...
Over 60 years ago, Wally Funk trained for NASA’s Mercury program, but even with her training, she was unable to secure her spot to go into space. Now, at 82-years-old, Funk is getting the chance ...
Jerrie Cobb (1931–2019), first woman to fly in the Paris Air Show and to be tested as an astronaut [18] [19] Jacqueline Cochran (1908–1980), first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound [20] Bessie Coleman (1892–1926), first African-American woman pilot, earned her license in France 1921 [21]
Teitel's Fighting for Space (2020) is a dual biography of female pilots Jacqueline Cochran and Jerrie Cobb. [11] [12] Video and other media