Opinion: She would have been the first American woman in space. Congress held her back.
Geraldyn “Jerrie” Cobb attended a Tulsa conference of space experts on May 26, 1961. By Martha Ackmann April 25 at 4:00 PM Martha Ackmann is the author of “The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight.”
In the early 1960s, Cobb went through secret testing in hope of becoming an astronaut. William Randolph Lovelace II, head of NASA’s Life Sciences, was responsible for choosing the famed Mercury 7 astronauts. He was curious to find out how female pilots might fare on the same rigorous physical exams. He selected Cobb for the mission. Cobb was the 1959 Woman of the Year in Aviation and held world records for altitude, speed and distance.
When it came time for Cobb to make her case, she was nervous. She hated the limelight. But there was too much on the line, and she let her plain-spoken Oklahoma clarity take over. Her opening sentence was simple and intensely American — or as American as we hope to be: “We seek only a place in our nation’s space future without discrimination,” she said. Then Cobb kicked off her black pumps under the hearing table and stared the men down.
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