America's first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, has died age 88.
Jerrie Cobb prepares to operate the Multi-Axis Space Test Inertia Facility at the Lewis Research Center in Ohio in 1960.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — America's first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, who pushed for equality in space but never reached its heights, has died.
None of the Mercury 13 ever reached space, despite Cobb's testimony in 1962 before a Congressional panel. She wrote in her 1997 autobiography"Jerrie Cobb, Solo Pilot," ''My country, my culture, was not ready to allow a woman to fly in space.""She should have gone to space, but turned her life into one of service with grace," tweeted Ellen Stofan, director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum and a former NASA scientist.
"Jerrie Cobb served as an inspiration to many of our members in her record breaking, her desire to go into space, and just to prove that women could do what men could do," said Laura Ohrenberg, headquarters manager in Oklahoma City for the Ninety-Nines Inc., an international organization of licensed women pilots.
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