Jeannette Ridlon Piccard

The first woman ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church; she piloted a balloon nearly 58,000 feet over Lake Erie in 1934 to study the effects of cosmic rays in the stratosphere. She was the first woman to enter space, and hers was the first successful stratospheric flight made through a layer of clouds with a balloon that remained under control for the entire flight

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906- 2001) was an accomplished pilot, navigator, and writer who was also known for her role as the counterpart to famous husband Charles Lindbergh.

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Major Marcelite Jordan Harris

Maj. Gen. Marcelite Jordan Harris retired in 1997 as the highest-ranking female officer in the U.S. Air Force and the highest ranking African American woman in the Department of Defense.

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Colonel Ruth Lucas

During World War II, Ruth Lucas enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and became one of the few Black women to attend what is now the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. She transferred from the Army to the Air Force in 1947, where she stayed for the remainder of her military career.

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