Nose Art: Unto the Breech

UNTO THE BREECH

In 1957, Jackie Cochran, leader of the famous World War II female pilot cadre, the 99’s, and Diane Donohue, a Navy test pilot, were accepted into the NASA Astronaut Program. Despite three years of superior performance, NASA scientists decided in 1961 that women were unsuited for space travel and they were discharged. They then joined the VGL and Cochran made the first successful translocation by a female in April, 1963. She designed her own pod art as “a reminder to deskbound types that women can fly better every bit as well as men!”

UNTO THE BREECH: Type: UFT3B
Commissioned: April, 1963
Sixty-five missions, 1963-1971
Mothballed: June, 1971
Decommissioned: November, 1971
UNTO THE BREECH II: Type: System 3.0-X
Commissioned: December 1994

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