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Detailed explanation-1: -Pilot Jerrie Cobb was part of the Mercury 13. Jerrie Cobb, a pilot, an equality trailblazer and America’s first female astronaut candidate, died March 18 at 88 years old. Cobb passed away after a brief illness, the Associated Press reported Thursday.

Detailed explanation-2: -On June 18, 1983, Dr. Sally K. Ride became the first American woman in space. For the first 20 years of U.S. spaceflight, only military pilots could become astronauts.

Detailed explanation-3: -Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA’s Apollo program, died Tuesday in Houston. He was 90. NASA confirmed Cunningham’s death in a statement but did not include its cause.

Detailed explanation-4: -On October 15, 1970, [note 1] at day 200 of the ASCAN programm, the only 5 remaining candidates had to fly the so called “"flying bedstead", a lunar landing training vehicle (LLTV), at Ellington Air Force BaseW. During her training flight, Patty crashed with her module and died in the process.