In this photograph, Jerrie Cobb is testing the Gimbal Rig in the Altitude Wind Tunnel in 1960.
Jerrie Cobb was the first woman to pass the entry tests of the Mercury Astronaut Program, but rules of NASA shut Cobb and other women out of fully qualifying.
Jerrie Cobb in 1960, testing the Gimbal Rig, used to train astronauts
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