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	JERRIE COBB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In addition to these accomplishments, Jerrie Cobb is famed for being named the United States's first woman astronaut trainee in August 1960.
		Cobb resigned from her position with the space agency and became a private pilot conducting humanitarian aid missions to the peoples of Amazonian rain forests in six South American nations.
		Cobb is one of four Americans to hold the Golden Wings awarded by France's Federation Aeronautique Internationale.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/cobb.htm (395 words)

	Cobb, Geraldyn ("Jerrie") (1931-)
		Born in Oklahoma, Cobb first flew at the age of 12 in the backseat of an open-cockpit biplane, a 1936 Waco, flown by her father.
		By age 19, Cobb was teaching men to fly, and by 21, she was delivering military fighters and four-engine bombers to foreign Air Forces around the world.
		Cobb was appointed by NASA Administrator James Webb as consultant to the nation's space program in May 1961, but NASA's requirement that astronauts have military jet test pilot experience eliminated all women since women were not allowed to fly in the military.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/Cobb.html (702 words)

	:: NASA Quest > Archives :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jerrie's life is a true love story; the story of a woman and the world into which she quite literally plunges, a world that swirls around her and beneath her, that loves her, ignores her, breaks her heart and honors her.
		By age 19, Jerry was teaching men to fly, and by 21, she was delivering sleek military fighters and four-engine bombers to foreign Air Forces around the world, well on her way to becoming one of the world's top pilots.
		Jerrie was appointed by the Administrator of NASA as consultant to the nation's space program in May 1961, but NASA's requirement that astronauts have military jet test pilot experience eliminated all women since women were not allowed to fly in the military.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /space/frontiers/cobb.html (738 words)

	Mercury 13 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jerrie Cobb, Rhea Hurrle, and Wally Funk went to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for an isolation tank test and psychological evaluations.
		Jerrie Cobb immediately flew to Washington, D.C. to try to have the testing program resumed.
		Although both Cobb and Cochran made separate appeals for years afterward to restart a women's astronaut testing project, the U.S. civil space agency did not select any female astronaut candidates until the 1978 class of Space Shuttle astronauts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mercury_13 (890 words)

	ALUMNI HALL OF FAME HONORS REAL ESTATE EXPERT MO ANDERSON
		Jerrie’s persistent badgering of her parents resulted in their allowing her to fly on her 12th birthday, elevated on pillows so she could see over the rim of the rear cockpit of the Waco as she and her father zoomed along at 92 mph.
		Jerrie said she was a pilot waiting for a job, to which Ford responded that he had no objections to women flying, but piloting was a man’s job.
		Jerrie resigned her position as a NASA consultant, and after considerable prayer and self-assessment, she left the space race and returned to the primordial world of South America in 1964, forsaking outer space for inner space.
	www.usao.edu /alumni/cobb-intro.htm (2080 words)

	Jerrie Cobb, Oklahoma Flight Pioneer Bid for Space Flight
		Geraldyn Cobb was born in Norman in 1931 and spent her high school years at Classen in Oklahoma City.
		Cobb has a most impressive background as a pioneering aviator, it has been almost forty years since she qualified as a Mercury program astronaut.
		Cobb appealed to NASA that the U.S. had a perfect opportunity to beat the Russians by putting the first woman in spaceand she expected to be that woman.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~swokla/family/jerricobb.html (2165 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Jerrie Cobb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jerrie Cobb was deeply discouraged by the failure of NASA to put a female in space, and in the same year (1964) she became a jungle pilot in the Amazon.
		Jerrie Cobb is an international figure who has combined her love of flight with her desire to help people in need.
		Jerrie Cobb, the first to be tested, was a shy, restless woman who had worked ferrying planes to obscure corners of South America.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Cobb_Jerrie_13652549.htm (895 words)

	It's Time to Launch Jerrie Cobb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jerrie Cobb publicly lobbied Congress to become part of NASA's astronaut corps, but despite the 1963 launch of Soviet non-pilot Valentina Tereshkova, NASA maintained that women would not be part of the Mercury program.
		Jerrie Cobb was denied the right to go to space for fear that America would lose face by sending a mere woman.
		In 1960, Jerrie Cobb had twice as many flight hours as John Glenn, and she has continued to fly for the past thirty-eight years.
	www.teachspace.org /news/cobb.html (533 words)

	NOW Launches Campaign to Send Pilot Jerrie Cobb Into Space
		Cobb's flight career began at the age of 12, alongside her father in his 1936 Waco bi-wing airplane.
		In spite of her test results and her extraordinary talent and ambition, Cobb was denied the chance to become the first woman in space when NASA changed the rules to count only military flight hours toward astronaut qualification - at a time when the military did not let women fly.
		NOW has urged NASA to include Jerrie Cobb in a future space mission, citing the injustices against her and the need to study weightlessness and aging in women as well as men.
	www.now.org /nnt/winter-99/jerriecobb.html (1032 words)

	Ackmann
		Cobb quit her position as an executive with an aviation firm and took a job flying food, clothing, medicine, and personnel into the Amazon rainforest.
		With the announcement of Glenn's return to space, a movement has surfaced to reacquaint the American public with the story of the Mercury 13 and Jerrie Cobb's desire to be seriously considered for an upcoming flight.
		In denying her a chance in 1961 and again in 1998, NASA robs Jerrie Cobb of her place in history.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/press/releases/Ackmann.shtml (815 words)

	A Positive Light - Astronaut Jerrie Cobb, Our Other American Legend
		Deep in the Amazon jungle, Jerrie Cobb dances on the wing of her airplane by the light of the moon.
		Jerrie and Jack Ford were engaged for two years...until he died in an aircraft accident.
		Jerrie returned to her family in Ponca City, Oklahoma, then proceeded to set three international distance and speed records in a twin-engine Aero Commander.
	ganymede.nmsu.edu /tharriso/jcobb.html (1035 words)

	Jerrie Jerrie Cobb Was One Of The Mercury 13, Our First Female Astronauts, Who Never Flew In Space. At 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jerrie Cobb was one of the Mercury 13, our first female astronauts, who never flew in space.
		Meet: Jerrie Cobb, First woman to undergo the testing developed for the selection of the Mercury Astronauts ignores her, breaks her heart and honors her.
		Jerrie was six when she discovered God's plan for her life hot summer nights.
	www.99hosted.com /names2339.html (498 words)

	GPN-2004-00026 - Jerrie Cobb Poses beside Mercury Capsule
		Although she never flew in space, Cobb, along with twenty-four other women, underwent physical tests similar to those taken by the Mercury astronauts with the belief that she might become an astronaut trainee.
		While she was sworn in as a consultant to Administrator James Webb on the issue of women in space, mounting political pressure and internal opposition lead NASA to restrict its official astronaut training program to men despite campaigning by the thirteen finalists of the FLAT program.
		After three years, Cobb left NASA for the jungles of the Amazon, where she has spent four decades as a solo pilot delivering food, medicine, and other aid to the indigenous people.
	grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2004-00026.html (232 words)

	Jerrie Cobb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1961 Jerrie Cobb added the helicopter to her growing lists of conquests at Bell Helicopter Company's Fort Worth plant.
		In the 1960s when NASA would not yet allow women to explore outer space, Jerrie set her disappointments aside and used her 1950's competencies to serve the primitive people of the Amazon jungle.
		Jerrie's fabulous flying career spanning more than half a century is a rich tapestry of adventure, continuing on today as Jerrie pursues her deep love of the sky, and her continuing passion to fly in space.
	www.womeninaviation.com /jerrie.html (375 words)

	JERRIE COBB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Several women, including Cobb, surpassed the test results of the men who were chosen (including John Glenn).
		When John Glenn was selected as a senior citizen to return to space, many of Jerrie Cobb's friends and admirers campaigned to get her into space.
		The efforts to honor Jerrie Cobb failed and Glenn went up and endangered the mission, a fact that was kept secret for a long time.
	www.geocities.com /Wellesley/Garden/1425/cobb.htm (257 words)

	99s Book Corner: Jerrie Cobb, Solo Pilot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Jerrie learned to fly a bi-wing plane at 12; at age of 16, she was barnstorming with a circus around Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
		At 18 she was teaching others to fly and at 21, Jerrie was delivering military fighters and 4-engine bombers around the world.
		She was the first woman to pass NASA astronaut tests, but when women were not allowed in the 1960s to become astronauts, Jerrie used her flying to serve the primitive people of the Amazon jungle.
	www.ninety-nines.org /books/b_jerriecobb.html (194 words)

	Geraldyn M. "Jerrie" Cobb (1931-), Pioneer Aviatrix
		NASA officials told Jerrie Cobb in 1959 she would be the first woman in space.
		She invited Cobb and the dozen other women who were part of the female astronaut program when it was canceled in 1961 to attend her launch.
		Cobb did an impromptu jig on her plane, from the tip of one wing to the other.
	www.ctie.monash.edu.au /hargrave/cobb.html (10160 words)

	Jerrie Cobb-the Astronaut Who Should Have Been
		A woman who was particularly cheated was Jerrie Cobb, a woman who had logged over 10,000 hours as a pilot (compared to 2,500 for John Glenn at the same time) and who scored in the top 2% of all astronaut candidates on her tests.
		While she was briefly made a NASA consultant in the early '60s, she eventually left NASA completely and became a missionary pilot in Brazil for the next 35 years.
		Jerrie Cobb has returned to America, to be honored as an outstanding woman pilot, but also to fight for "her turn" in space, even though it's almost 40 years overdue.
	www.dpsinfo.com /women/history/jcobb.html (202 words)

	Mercury 13 - the Women of the Mercury Era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born in Oklahoma in 1931, Jerrie took her first flight at the age of 12 in the backseat of an open-cockpit biplane, a Waco flown by her father.
		She holds world records for speed, altitude and distance that were set in the 1950's, and after she embarked on her career as a missionary pilot, was nominated for the nobel Peace Prize.
		Goldin agreed Jerrie would be the perfect candidate to go into space for geriatric and aging studies, as she already has the same base medical profile as does Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn (who recently went back into space).
	www.mercury13.com /noframes/jerrie.htm (832 words)

	Jerrie Cobb Space
		Cobb, then 29, certainly seemed to measure up to the likes of John Glenn and Scott Carpenter for a place among America's pioneering astronauts.
		Jerrie Cobb had all the right stuff, just like Glenn and his fellow Mercury astronauts.
		"Sexism was the only thing that kept Jerrie Cobb out of space in 1960, and it cannot be allowed to stand in her way now," Ireland said at a news conference.
	www.jerrie-cobb-foundation.org /jerrie_cobb_space.html (552 words)

	NASA - Jerrie Cobb and the Mercury Project
		And, although she never flew in space, Cobb, along with 24 other women, underwent physical tests similar to those taken by the Mercury astronauts with the belief that she might become an astronaut trainee.
		Cobb passed all the training exercises, ranking in the top 2 percent of all astronaut candidates.
		While she was sworn in as a consultant to NASA Administrator James Webb on the issue of women in space, mounting political pressure and internal opposition lead the agency to restrict its official astronaut training program to men despite campaigning by the 13 finalists of the FLAT program.
	www.nasa.gov /multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_492.html (252 words)

	Heroes: Aviator/Humanitarian - Jerrie Cobb
		Jerrie Cobb was born in 1931 in Ponca City, Oklahoma.
		Jerrie returned to Ponca City where she set four world aviation records for speed, distance and two for absolute altitude.
		Jerrie Cobb is an obscure but defining character in American history.
	www.teenink.com /Past/2004/November/18291.html (671 words)

	Space Future - sf-discuss:Re: Sending Jerrie Cobb to space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I consider that Jerrie Cobb has just as much 'right' to go into space as John Glenn, that is, no 'right' which exceeds the 'right' of anyone on this list or elsewhere.
		There are significant ranges in all aspects of human physiology in the population, and two distinct clusters of properties around 'male' and 'female' body types.
		The emphasis was not on 'petitioning', but rather on pointing up the ironies ahd hypocracies inherant in Glenn's bid to go back into space.
	www.spacefuture.com /lists/sf-discuss/September-1998/msg00014.html (331 words)

	GPN-2000-000379 - Jerrie Cobb, Lady Pilot, testing Gimbal Rig in AWT
		Jerrie Cobb, a well known female pilot in the 1950s, testing Gimbal Rig in the Altitude Wind Tunnel, AWT in April 1960.
		The Gimbal Rig, formally called MASTIF or Multiple Axis Space Test Inertia Facility, was used to train astronauts to control the spin of a tumbling spacecraft.
		Jerrie Cobb was the first female to pass all three phases of the Mercury Astronaut Program but NASA rules stipulated that only military test pilots could become astronauts and there were no female military test pilots.
	grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000379.html (137 words)

	Other Cobbs and Cobb Web Sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		NASA planned to send Jerrie Cobb into space in the sixties, but John Glenn successfully opposed the female astronaut program.
		The Cobb Grill, a barbecue grill and more, very safe and economical, weighing only 8.5 lbs, developed to reduce the use of wood as a cooking fuel in Africa.
		One of many illustrious John Cobbs, this one set the world land speed record in 1947, at 397 mph.
	www.cobb.com /othercobbs (609 words)

	Action Alert: Support Jerrie Cobb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jerrie Cobb is a 67-year-old aviator with more than 50 years of experience.
		Nonetheless, she was denied the opportunity to fly because NASA deemed women unsuitable for space travel.
		NASA still won't let Cobb fly — even though she is qualified, fit and ready to serve the space program and science.
	www.now.org /actions/cobb.html (136 words)

	'twURLed World' Thumbnail: Jerrie Cobb
		First Woman Astronaut First Woman to Pass Mercury Astronaut Regimen Jerrie Cobb was born to fly.
		Home Jerrie Cobb First Woman to Pass Mercury Astronaut Regimen Jerrie Cobb was born to fly.
		Jerrie Cobb First Woman to Pass Mercury Astronaut Regimen.
	www.twurl.com /Controversy/Data/M13/URL_Details/URL_119.htm (247 words)

	Woman Into Space: The Jerrie Cobb Story - COBB, JERRIE, WITH JANE RIEKER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		COBB, JERRIE, WITH JANE RIEKER Woman Into Space: The Jerrie Cobb Story
		Dj worn; owner's names on endpapers, but most inner pages clean, binding tight.
		Illustrated with fl and white photos, the book tells the story of Cobb's long journey in her attempt to become the first woman in space.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/connie/112681.shtml (124 words)

	JERRIE COBB AND THE MERCURY 13
		When other women in the secret project also tested very high, NASA cancelled the testing.
		NASA officials admitted later that they had no intentions of allowing women to pilot space craft.
		Four of them had logged more flying hours than any of the seven men chosen two years earlier as Mercury astronauts.
	www.thelizlibrary.org /liz/cobb.htm (1312 words)

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