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10 giu 2024 · Having set the record for altitude during the development of the Aero Commander, passed NASA’s astronaut test, flown medicine to the Amazon, and fought discrimination to become an aeronautical pioneer, Jerrie Cobb (above) can now add a Riley watch created in her honour to her list of achievements.
14 giu 2024 · The WASP actively inspired successive generations of women, including aviator Jerrie Cobb, Desert Storm pilot Kelly Hamilton, astronaut Eileen Collins, Navy pilot Rosemary Mariner, and Terry London Rinehart, who was one of the first 10 women to be hired as a commercial airline pilot in 1976.
6 giu 2024 · She was more qualified than any woman in the world to make the leap from atmosphere to orbit. Yet it was Jerrie Cobb, twenty-five years Jackie's junior and a record-holding pilot in her own right, who finagled her way into taking the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts.
7 giu 2024 · Filmmaking is what Haverstick does, and the focus of her film was to be Jerrie Cobb, a pilot and Nobel Prize nominee who passed the physical tests for the Mercury missions into space, only to be told that the Moon was very much a man’s world.
2 giu 2024 · Seven of the “Mercury 13” (from left), Jessen, Wally Funk, Jerrie Cobb, Jerri Truhill, Sarah Ratley, Myrtle Cagle, and Bernice Steadman at the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-63) from the Kennedy Space Center in 1995. They were invited by the mission’s pilot, Eileen Collins, the first female Shuttle pilot.
3 giu 2024 · About the project: SUMMARY: Based on the life and accomplishments of Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb, the first woman to test for space flight with NASA. Jerrie has passed every test every male astronaut has completed and has now moved into Phase Two of her NASA testing- the isolation tank.
7 giu 2024 · One of the most prominent is Jerrie Cobb, an American aviator and trailblazer who was one of the first women to undergo astronaut training in the 1960s. Cobb’s achievements in aviation and her advocacy for women in space exploration have left a significant mark on history.
