Up In The Air Week: The Life And Flights Of Jerrie Cobb

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

This week we're replaying some of our favorite episodes that take place up in the air. In this one from March 2020, we marked the birthday of Jerrie Cobb, who could have been the first woman in space but ended up flying to great heights nonetheless. Plus: it was on this day in 2011 that a museum in the Netherlands first put on exhibit a work called “Peanut Butter Floor," which was exactly what it sounds like.

Jerrie Cobb, America's first female astronaut candidate, dies at 88 (NBC News)

Cobb, Geraldyn “Jerrie” M., Aviation Pioneer (National Aviation Hall of Fame)

Peanut Butter Floor (Bookofjoe)

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