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News and Articles on Jacqueline Cochran
This Day in History May 18, 2008
In 1953, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier as she piloted a North American F-86 Canadair over Rogers Dry Lake, Calif. In 1980, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded, leaving 57 people dead or missing. (Montana Standard, MT)
Learn more about the Mercury 13 May 8, 2007
Lovelace and Cobb recruited more women to take the tests, financed by the world-renowned aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran. Image left: Jerrie Cobb, testing the Gimbal Rig in the Altitude Wind Tunnel in April 1960. (USA Today -- Tech)
Lovelace's Woman in Space Program May 8, 2007
Jacqueline Cochran, the famous pilot, businesswoman, and Lovelace s old friend, joined the project as an advisor and paid all of the women s testing expenses. By the end of the summer of 1961, nineteen women pilots had taken astronaut fitness examinations at the Lovelace Clinic. (USA Today -- Tech)
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