Space
by Kathy K McClellan
Title
Space
Artist
Kathy K McClellan
Medium
Digital Art - Photographs
Description
Space by Kathy K. McClellan is an image created for Day 64 of the Journal 2022 Challenge.
My journal entries for March make up a series titled "From Letters to Words" using the letters that were created for the February entries. As March is Women's History Month (since 1987), several of my posts this month will be celebrating women in history.
Today's post finds us honoring Geraldyn "Jerrie" M. Cobb. I chose her because today is March 5th, the day that she was born.
Jerrie Cobb was an American aviator and humanitarian. Her love of flying started early in life as her father was a pilot. By the age of 16 she was barnstorming around the Great Plains. By the age of 17 Cobb had earned her private pilot's license. She received her commercial pilots license a year later. She set three aviation records in her twenties.
Her history is full of firsts but thwarted by sexism. At 28 years of age, she was chosen to be one of the 13 women subjected to the Mercury astronaut selection process. The Mercury 13 project was not sanctioned or funded by NASA but tested the women with the same criteria as the men who were being tested for Project Mercury. Jerrie pasted all of the tests and went on to lobby for women in space.
In 1963 Jerrie became a missionary pilot serving the indigenous people of the Amazon jungle. For 48 years she delivered food, medicine, clothing, seeds and other necessities to primitive inhabitants of isolated regions. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1981 for that humanitarian work.
She was awarded the Harmon Trophy in 1973 by President Nixon who called her the top woman pilot in the world.
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