Jacqueline Cochran was a record-breaking aviatrix, entrepreneur and political mover and shaker who was close enough with President Lindon B. Johnson he refused to let her call him Mr. President.
Jacqueline Cochran was a record-breaking aviatrix, entrepreneur and political mover and shaker who was close enough with President Lyndon B. Johnson that he refused to let her call him Mr. President.
“I can’t believe I never heard of her,” Shira-Teitel said. “She led the women’s Air Force service pilots in the second World War, was the first woman to fly to the sound barrier, saved LBJ’s life one day, was friends with multiple presidents, was just a huge force in aviation, and held more records than any pilot male or female, the world over, when she died in 1980.
“We women pilots who want to be part of the research and participation in space exploration are not trying to join a battle of the sexes,” Cobb told the subcommittee members. “As pilots, we fly and share mutual respect with male pilots in the, primarily, man’s world of aviation. We seek only a place in our nation’s space future without discrimination.”“And then this other pilot, Jackie Cochran, comes in out of nowhere and says that women shouldn’t fly in space.
Based on her experience in high-speed precision flying and other accolades, Cochran said she would like to go to space but then said, “I do not feel that I have been the subject of any discrimination.”
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