Gene Nora Jessen (1937-2024)

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Gene Nora Jessen (10.01.1937-21.05.2024)

W wieku 87 lat zmarła Gene Nora Jessen.
Z grupy Mercury 13 żyje już tylko Wally Funk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Nora_Jessen

https://iwasm.omeka.net/items/show/1368

https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1795946242142322736
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Gene Nora Jessen (née Stumbough) est décédée le 21 mai 2024 à 87 ans.
Elle avait fait partie du Groupe Mercury 13 constituée le 1er février 1960 (sélectionnée sous son nom de jeune fille).
Elle ne vola jamais dans l'espace.
Wally Funk est la dernière survivante de ce groupe Mercury 13.
(Gene Nora Jessen est à gauche, à côté de Wally Funk, en regardant la photo - décollage de STS-63 en février 1995).
https://tributearchive.com/obituaries/31604454/gene-nora-jessen

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Gene Nora Jessen broke flying boundaries for women at OU, NASA and beyond.
ANNE BARAJAS HARP


Jessen, who was OU’s first woman flight instructor and among the first women to test for space training, continued to fly into her 70s. “It’s an adventure,” she says.  Photo Courtesy Gene Nora Jessen

But Jessen, now 85, didn’t stop there—she joined an astronaut testing program for women, crisscrossed the nation in a three-plane formation, and became a three-time aviation author. (...)

Jessen’s way was working as OU’s first woman flight instructor and earning multiple flight ratings while taking courses toward an English degree. Shortly after graduating in 1961, a can’t-miss opportunity appeared on the horizon.

“I heard about a secret female astronaut training program,” Jessen relates in her first-person account,  The Fabulous Flight of the Three Musketeers. “I brazenly wrote [program director] Dr. Lovelace, insisting that he shouldn’t go forward without me. Amazingly, he wrote back, inviting me in.” Because OU wouldn’t give Jessen time off, she quit her flight instructor job. (...)
https://soonermag.oufoundation.org/stories/gene-nora-jessen-broke-flying-boundaries-for-women-at-ou-nasa-and-beyond

http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum38/HTML/002592.html
https://www.ninety-nines.org/latest-news-in-memoriam-gene-nora-jessen-368.htm
https://www.museumofwomenpilots.org/women-pilots-gene-nora-jessen-26.htm
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4602801/

https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/show/idaho-matters/2018-06-13/gene-nora-jessen-recalls-astronaut-testing