Geraldine "Jerri" Sloan Truhill, David Sloan, and Martha Ann Reading at the Texas Doll Derby

Geraldine "Jerri" Sloan Truhill, David Sloan, and Martha Ann Reading at the Texas Doll Derby

Women air pilots -- United States

United States. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Aviatrix Geraldine "Jerri" Sloan Truhill bending down from the cockpit of a Cessna 175 to pick up her son, David. Next to her sits her co-pilot, Martha Ann Reading. Truhill was one of the thirteen women who passed all of the astronaut tests given at the Lovelace Clinic in 1961, making her a member of the Mercury 13. Reading was the first female Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol. Both women were members of the Texas Ninety-Nines.

IWASM

IWASM Original Photo Collection, International Women's Air and Space Museum

Jerri Truhill

ca. 1960s

Heidi Fearing/Kimberly Cole

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Original Photo No. 623

Texas