Her sole non-wearable accessory was an American flag. She sported a fully beat face with red lipstick and blue eyeshadow. She wore a silver space suit with brown zippered boots and matching gloves. In 1965, Mattel, the toy company co-founded by Barbie creator Ruth Handler and her husband Elliot, released the Miss Astronaut Barbie, the original of which is on display at the Smithsonian. None of them would become the first American woman to go into space that distinction belongs to Sally Ride, who was a part of NASA’s 1978 class of recruits and who eventually, on June 18, 1983, flew into space and broke America’s cosmic glass ceiling.īut Barbie had them all beat.
Thirteen women, who eventually came to be known as the Mercury 13, passed the exams. The project was privately funded as part of the program, Cobb and about 19 other women had undergone the exact same physical tests as the male candidates for the United States’ astronaut program.
William Randolph Lovelace II, the chairman of the NASA Special Advisory Committee on Life Sciences, invited Jerrie Cobb, an accomplished pilot who held the world record for nonstop long-distance flight at the time, to participate in what would become known as the Woman in Space Program.
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