The daughter of a military pilot, Geraldyn Cobb learned to fly at age 12, earned her license at 16 and earned money by dusting crops in her native Oklahoma. In 1959, the National Pilots Association named her Pilot of the Year as she became the first woman to pass NASA training for prospective astronauts.

Four years later, NASA decided not to send women into space, even though Jerrie Cobb had passed all their tests and set records for speed, distance and absolute altitude. She resigned her position and moved to the Amazon where she ferries antibiotics, seeds, clothes, doctors and hope to the primitive Indian villages of Central and South America.

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1960.

NOTES: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection

From the collections of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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