Question: Name the NASA’s first female astronaut candidate?
(a) Jerrie Cobb
(b) Shannon Lucid
(c) Judith Resnik
(d) Anna Lee Fisher
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
(a) Jerrie Cobb
(b) Shannon Lucid
(c) Judith Resnik
(d) Anna Lee Fisher
Answer: (a)
Related facts:
- NASA’s first female astronaut candidate, pilot Jerrie Cobb, has died in Florida last month. She was 88.
- In 1961, Cobb became the first woman to pass astronaut testing.
- Altogether, 13 women passed the arduous physical testing and became known as the Mercury 13.
- None of the Mercury 13 candidate ever reached space.
- Cobb served for decades as a humanitarian aid pilot in the Amazon jungle.
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