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Topic: Jerri Truhill, "Mercury 13" member (1929-2013)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 11-19-2013 06:45 PM
   
Al Hallonquist informs that Geraldine "Jerri" Sloan Truhill, one of the members of the "Mercury 13," has died. She was 85. From the Dallas Observer: Had Jerri Truhill been born a quarter century later, she very well might have made it into space. Some argue she should have. She and the dozen other women who composed the Mercury 13 program passed whatever tests [the Lovelace Clinic] threw at them, and she seemed to possess as much of the "right stuff" as John Glenn and the rest of the men who would be launched into orbit.The early 1960s, however, were not a time of gender equality, so when Truhill passed away Monday at an Irving hospice, her story remained buried in the footnotes of the history of American spaceflight. Additional biographical information about Truhill can be read at Mercury13.com. |
albatron
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posted 11-19-2013 06:55 PM
I've been in touch with the writer of that Dallas Observer article, and hope he is going to change some of the misstatements in it. She was a fine enough aviator the informant didn't need to embellish. Thanks Rob. |
randy
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posted 11-20-2013 03:42 AM
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Ronpur
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history in miniature
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fredtrav
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David Carey
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Delta7
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Philip
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MarylandSpace
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Rocketman!
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Kite
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mach3valkyrie
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East-Frisian
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posted 11-21-2013 02:41 AM
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eurospace
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posted 11-21-2013 05:33 AM
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dss65
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posted 11-21-2013 08:56 PM
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LM1
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posted 11-22-2013 07:28 AM
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MSS
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posted 11-23-2013 02:52 PM
RIP Jerri!------------------
Astronauts, Cosmonauts & their flights |
Joel Katzowitz
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posted 11-24-2013 07:09 AM
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rjb1elec
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posted 11-25-2013 03:38 PM
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astro-nut
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posted 12-01-2013 10:36 AM
.Unfortunately, another female pioneer has left us. |
East-Frisian
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posted 08-09-2017 08:04 AM
Does someone know exactly, when she was born? Saw the years 1927 and 1928. |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 08-09-2017 12:38 PM
According to her obituary, Truhill was born on Nov. 12, 1929. (The subject line for this thread has been corrected, from 1927 to 1929.) |
Wehaveliftoff
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posted 08-09-2017 01:00 PM
Born Nov. 18, 1928, according to SpaceFacts. |
Robert Pearlman
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posted 08-09-2017 01:26 PM
Heinz (East-Frisian) is one of the authors of Spacefacts.de. |
East-Frisian
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posted 08-10-2017 02:26 AM
I only wanted to have the correct date. Be sure, I know the information of spacefacts, but for Irene Leverton for example, we had some errors. |
ColinBurgess
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posted 08-10-2017 03:00 AM
According to the Latter Day Saints online records, she was born 12 November 1928. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-11-2017 12:08 PM
Jerri Truhill was interred at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas, where her date of birth is recorded as Nov. 12, 1929 (as verified by the cemetery). |
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