Alligator The space shuttle Discovery, carrying Glenn and six others, lands at the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday afternoon. As John Glenn completed his second trip to space in 36 years, Jerri Cobb watched from the stands waiting for her first trip to space. But she has yet to achieve her dream of flying in space.
Old folks have dreams and ambitions just like everyone else does.
Cobb said her dream still is to go into space. Gender should have nothing to do with this, but it does. Cobb said she is disappointed only two women have been space pilots in NASA's history. She will pilot the second mission to assemble the space station. Women pilots have been making contributions to the space program since Amelia Earhart.