Jerrie Cobb seeks spaceflight after NASA snub decades ago
In Florida and the Amazon, Jerrie Cobb pressing for a space flight as NASA studies aging astronauts. She cites her 1960s astronaut tests and calls for equal opportunity alongside Americans like John Glenn. Cobb remains hopeful Glenn’s orbital return spurs support for her bid.
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Amazon
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
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Jerrie Cobb
Glenn
Mercury
Cobb
Dwayne Brown
National Women’s History Project
American Association of University Women of California
James Inhofe
Don Nickles
Oklahoma
Barbara Boxer
Dianne Feinstein
California
Fresno Pacific University
Jerrie
Space
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Ince
Brown
Dorough
Earth
Florida
Panama
Sen
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Kennedy Space Center
House
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Carpenter
Mercury Flight
Chris Kraft
Kraft
Astronautrix
Astroneute
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Air Force
Eileen Collins
Collins
The
Myrtle
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Macon
Jerri Truhill
Truhill
Dallas
AP Pitoro
The Roaring Twenties Kaleidoscope of People and Events
A compact chronicle of the 1920s hitting the jazz age, scandals, trials, tech leaps, and cultural icons. Names like Harding Teapot Dome Wilson Arbuckle Lindbergh Keaton Garbo Chaplin Roosevelt Ruth Gershwin Fitzgerald ONeill Mencken and Hitler mingle with theatre, radio, sports, and the New Yorker as the era spirals from boom to looming bust.
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Warren G. Harding
Nan Britton
White House
Woodrow Wilson
Fatty Arbuckle
Mah Jongy
Babe Ruth
Sinclair Lewis
Elmer Gantry
Hitler
Reade's Digest
Brand New
Buster Keaton
Toot
Tootsie
Aimee Semple McPherson
Valentino
Dayton
Tenn
The
Daily News
the Mirror
Macfadden
Graphic
Johnny Weissmuller
Gertrude Ederle
Dion O'Banion
Billy Mitchell
Barney Google
John Gilbert
Greta Garbo Loeb
Leopold
Chicago
Calvin Coolidge
Pickford, Fairbanks
Buddy Rogers
John Held
Bill Tilden
Helen Wills
New Yorker
Hall-Mills
Eugene O'Neill
Jimmy Walker
Henry Ford
Chesterfield
Charles A. Lindbergh
Atlantic
George Gershwin
Sheik of
Annie
Lenin
Stalin
FE Scott Fitzgerald
Zelda LaFollette
H.L. Mencken
American Mercury
Harold Lloyd
Mussolini
Italy
Floyd Collins
Kentucky
Lon Chaney
Notre Dame
Bobby Jones
Rose Marie
Algonquin Circle
New York
Notable Names From Culture And News Of A Turbulent Era
A compact string of cultural icons and events from an era marked by film stars, politicians, literature, and the stock market crash. It references Clara Bow and many others, including Al Smith, Dempsey, Tunney, Gandhi, Robeson, and Hemingway, alongside headlines of history such as Prohibition, the St. Valentine massacre, and economic upheaval.
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Charleston
Clara Bow
al Smith
Dempsey
Tunney
Archy
Ineritable
Wings
Mahatma Gandhi
India
Paul Robeson
Manhattan
Bronx
Staten Island
Red Grange
Ella Cinders
Winnie Winkle
Tillie the Toiler
Peaches
Daddy Browning
Herbert Hoover
Hemingway
Clark Street
St. Valentine’s Day
Grantland Rice
Four Horsemen of
Notre Dame
Gaynor
Farrell
Sacco and
Vanzetti
Massachusetts
John Dos Passos
Pancho Villa
Mexico
Ruth Snyder
Judd Gray
Nanette
Hanna
Vamp
Savannah
G.A
Chaplin
T.S. Eliot
Will Rogers
Veterans’ Bureau
Taft
Ku Klux Klan
William Allen White
Florida
Mississippi
Arkansas
al Jolson
Wall Street
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Mike Argirion
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