Jerrie Cobb, who was banned from going into space for being a woman, has passed away. 9News
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."
The Soviet Union ended up putting the first woman into space in 1963: Valentina Tereshkova. NASA didn't fly a woman in space — Sally Ride — until 1983. "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 organisation of licensed women pilots.
Geraldyn Cobb was born on March 5, 1931, in Norman, Oklahoma, the second daughter of a military pilot and his wife. She flew her father's open cockpit Waco biplane at age 12 and got her private pilot's license four years later.
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