Jerrie Cobb in Astronaut Training
Sitter
Geraldyn "Jerrie" M. Cobb
(1931 Norman, Oklahoma - 2019 Florida)
Date1959
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Nancy Tucker
Object numberPA2012.002.001
DescriptionJerrie Cobb is mopped by laboratory researcher after ten minutes of hard nonstop pedaling on bicycle ergometer at Lovelace Foundation in Albuquerque, N.M. Cobb is wearing shorts and a short-sleeved shirt and her blond hair is pulled back from her face. She is wearing a blood pressure cuff, a monitor around her head, and is resting on a stationary bicycle. The laboratory researcher is a woman wearing a white dress and reaching to mop sweat from Cobb's neck as Cobb looks downward. The 29-year-old Miss Cobb of Ponca City, Oklahoma, is the first woman to undergo and pass space flight tests for astronaut training. On View
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