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Blue Origin preparing for first crewed flight with six crew, including founder Jeff Bezos and "Mercury 13" aviatrix Wally Funk

She Couldn't Go to Space Because She Was a Woman. But She Hasn't Given Up on Her Dream. – Texas Monthly

Sky's The Limit: Amy Shira Teitel talks the women fighting for space – Australian Aviation

Meet Wally Funk: the woman cheated out of the space race, who will join Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin flight

Maggie Shipstead, Author of Great Circle: Interview

In an interview, the author shares her inspiration behind her latest novel, as well as the ways in which she worked to fold in real-life experiences.

How the Women Airforce Service Pilots served their country in WWII

The Women Airforce Service Pilots during WWII proved they could do it all. Unfortunately, some people didn’t think they should do any of it.

The San Diego Air & Space Museum Remembers Michael Collins

The San Diego Air & Space Museum Remembers Michael Collins The San Diego Air & Space Museum Remembers Michael Collins Michael Collins laying down, observing a checklist in a simulator of the command module. The San Diego Air & Space Museum is remembering Michael Collins, the Command Module Pilot for the historic Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 and a member of the prestigious International Air & Space Hall of Fame. Collins passed away on April 28, 2021. He was 90. Since 1963, the International Air & Space Hall of Fame has honored the world’s most significant pilots, crew members, visionaries, inventors, aerospace engineers, business leaders, preservationists, designers and space explorers. Collins entered the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in 1971.

Aviatrix Jackie Cochran is the most fascinating woman you've never heard of

Aviatrix Jackie Cochran is the most fascinating woman you’ve never heard of Cochran ‘was a huge force in aviation,’ space historian and author Amy Shira-Teitel says Updated:  Tags:  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. Yet Cochran’s legacy as the first woman to break the sound barrier in 1953 and her role in the Mercury 13 women astronaut testing program rarely gets a mention. “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.”

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flooding going on in states like iowa and indiana and wisconsin. >> you never know what you are going to get. always volatile. excited about the warmer temperatures and the crazy showers or tornados always spring up. >> we had it all in the last week. >> thank you, jackie. >> a mississippi high school put down an unwelcome mat to a lesbian couple who planned to go to the prom, but the owner of a luxury hotel is offering a plan to help the students out. we will tell you all about it.