Sally ride astronaut biography jerry

  • SALLY RIDE BIOGRAPHY FOR KIDS: A Shining Star for Young Girls [R.
  • Meet Sally Ride, the trailblazing astronaut who shattered glass ceilings and became the first American woman in space.
  • Meet Sally Ride, the trailblazing astronaut who shattered glass ceilings and became the first American woman in space.

    • •



  • sally ride astronaut biography jerry

    • •

    Gerald D. Griffin

    Gerald D. Griffin became Johnson Space Center’s third director on August 8, After spending four years in the U.S. Air Force, he became involved in the space industry in when he joined the Lockheed Missile and Space Company. He worked at the Satellite Test Center in Sunnyvale, California, and later at General Dynamics in Fort Worth, Texas.

    Griffin joined NASA in when he became a flight controller at the Manned Spacecraft Center.  In , he was named a flight director and assigned to the first crewed mission of the Apollo Program, Apollo 7.  As the lunar program progressed, he became lead flight director for Apollo 12, 15, and

    Read Gerald D. Griffin&#;s oral history transcript

    As the Apollo Program wound down, Griffin accepted several positions that took him across the United States.  In he moved to Washington, DC, to serve as the assistant administrator for legislative affairs at NASA Headquarters.  That position requires maintaining constru

    •

    Jerrie Cobb

    American aviator and astronaut (–)

    Geraldyn M. Cobb (March 5, – March 18, ), commonly known as Jerrie Cobb, was an American pilot and aviator. She was also part of the Mercury 13, a group of women who underwent physiological screening tests at the same time as the original Mercury Seven astronauts, and was the first to complete each of the tests.[1]

    Cobb set three aviation records in her 20s: the world record for non-stop long-distance flight, the world light-plane speed record, and a world altitude record for lightweight aircraft of 37, feet (11,&#;m).[2] In ,[3]Life Magazine named her as one of nine women of the " most important young people in the United States".[4][5]

    Early life

    [edit]

    Born on March 5, , in Norman, Oklahoma,[6] Cobb was the daughter of Lt. Col. William H. Cobb and Helena Butler Stone Cobb. From birth, Cobb was on the move, as is common for many children of military families. W