Obituary: Newspapers figured Jerrie Cobb, a 'moon maid,' was ready for space flight. NASA had other ideas.
Oklahoma-born pilot, shut out of Mercury program, flew food and medicine to indigenous people in AmazonIn 1960, Jerrie Cobb was rapidly becoming a celebrity. Already a veteran pilot at age 29, she aced a battery of tests given to women eager to join the men already jostling for trips to space.
To check her sense of balance, testers squirted water into her ears. In a contraption dubbed the Vomit Comet, she was spun head over heels and shaken side to side. She swallowed a rubber hose and endured nearly 10 hours of sensory deprivation in a water tank.
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