In this picture: Gene Nora Jessen, Wally Funk, Jerrie Cobb, Jerri Truhill, Sarah Ratley, Myrtle Cagle and Bernice Steadman. FLAT finalists were Jerrie Cobb, Wally Funk, Irene Leverton, Myrtle "K" Cagle, Janey Hart, Gene Nora Stumbough (Jessen), Jerri Sloan (Truhill), Rhea Hurrle (Woltman), Sarah Gorelick (Ratley), Bernice "B" Trimble Steadman, Jan Dietrich, Marion Dietrich and Jean Hixson.
First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLAT)
Mercury 13
Part of a group of 13 women who trained to become astronauts in the early 1960s, seven visit Kennedy Space Center in 1995, hosted by Eileen Collins.
First Lady Astronaut Trainees (FLAT): seven of the original Mercury 13 visit Kennedy Space Center in 1995 hosted by Eileen Collins.
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