From Broadway World:
“Laurel Ollstein’s probing drama based on the true story of an astronaut who had all the right stuff, but never got her chance to be the first woman in space, features Amanda Quaid and Andrus Nichols as the distinguished female aviators Jerrie Cobb and Jackie Cochran. The under-heralded story of the women’s testing program, created by Dr. W. Randolph Lovelace, who also ran the testing for the official Mercury 7 program, shows that many of the 13 women he tested were highly qualified, both physically and mentally, to fly. Jerrie Cobb — the group’s leading candidate — actually out-tested her male counterparts in Mercury 7 group (led by John Glenn, Gus Grissom and Alan Shepard).”
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