Future for Women in Aviation
Diocesan Press Service. December 6, 1963 [XVI-13]
Asked her opinion of the future for women in American aviation, Jerrie Cobb, one of the world's foremost women pilots and subject of the current book "Woman Into Space," says "there is a great future in aviation for women today." Interviewed on the National Council's public service radio program "The Good Life", the noted aviatrix expressed her opinion that "any dedicated woman who wants to make aviation her career, can go just a- bout as high and as far as she wants in the field of aviation."
Miss Cobb, an assistant vice president of Aero Commander Inc., believes space exploration is the most tremendous undertaking ever attempted in the millions of years man- kind has been on earth and that there should be a place for women in our nation's space program. As the only woman who has passed all three phases of astronaut testing, she has helped train a group of 12 women who are eager to take similar tests.
"There could be no greater privilege" remarked Miss Cobb "than to be chosen to serve God and country by being allowed to go higher and further into space. Being a pilot is a rich blessing she feels, one that keeps her close to God, with faith in His ways, and doing her best to follow as He leads.