Jerrie Bergeron Research Paper

Have you ever been daring enough to think outside the box or do something out of the ordinary? Maybe you have, or maybe you’ve been too scared to do it. Someone who wasn’t afraid was Amelia Earhart. She did something no one else had done or attempted to do before. Amelia Earhart, daring and outgoing from the start of her life, achieved many things, which is why she should be remembered because, indeed, flying is what ended her life.

With little experience and only 75 hours flying time she determined to break the existing record for a flight from England to Australia. Her father and Lord Wakefield were persuaded to purchase her first airplane, a de Havilland Gipsy Moth, which she named Jason after the brand name of her father’s fish merchant.

Sally Ride was an American Astrophysicist and an astronaut. In 1978, Sally Ride joined NASA. One of the most prestigious jobs you can acquire in this world. She was a very intelligent woman, who worked very hard for the life she earned. Ride had considered a career in professional tennis; she was an amazing athlete. Especially when it came to tennis, which was her favorite sport. She decided that a career of being an astronaut would take her much farther in life than a short-lived career as a tennis player.

Amelia was born and raised by Mr. and Ms. Earhart. WhenIn 1918 she saw an airplane at a state fair. How in the following year she became a nurse forwounded World War One soldiers. When she was in Toronto she attended a flying expedition with herfriends. Amelia Earhart attended an air show with her father, Edward Stanton Earhart. She later recalled,“By the time I got two or three hundred feet off the ground, I knew I had to fly.”On January 3, 1931 Amelia had her first flying lesson with a pilot named Neta Snook. AmeliaEarhart soon named her first plane, which is a biplane Canary. Eleven months later she passes her flyinglessons test given by the National Aeronautic Association. In October of the year after, Amelia Earhartset an altitude record

When Amelia Mary Earhart was first born, I heard she was a baby that loved to play with toy airplanes and then one day she got her own airplane and when she first flew her airplane, she fell in love with it.

Jemison was born in Alabama, when she was three her family moved to Chicago, Illinois for better educational opportunities. A year later after being accepted into the training program, Jemison became astronaut and was titled science mission specialist. Her job was to be responsible for the conducting the scientific experiments crew on the space shuttle. She spent about 190 hours in space after returning September 20 to Earth. Jenson was put into the National Women’s Hall of Fame, as well awarded Gamma Sigma Gamma Women of the Year in 1990. The “Notable Women Scientists” writes, “After leaving the astronaut corps in March of 1993, Jemison accepted a teaching fellowship at Dartmouth and established the Jemison Group, a company that researched, developed, and marketed advanced technologies” (1). By stating this, it proves that Jemison is another African American making a difference out in the world. Thanks to her we have better technology to help astronauts out in space, and better equipment for them as

She later returned to the United States in 1985 after she was the area Peace Corps medical officer for Sierra Leone and Liberia, where she also taught and did medical research. Soon enough, she wanted to cross an obstacle no one else would dare to go, Outer space. After the historic flight of Sally Ride, she applied for admission to NASA’s astronaut training program. Jemison was one of the fifteen candidates chosen from a field of about two thousand. She became the first ever African-American women to be admitted into the astronaut training

Apera Tobiason is a thirty-four-year-old single mother of four daughters. On top of living with her four daughters, she also has four Chihuahuas. She works as a coach for soccer at The Enid Soccer Club and basketball at The YMCA. Though free time is rare for her, when she has the opportunity, Apera likes to visit casinos with her friends.

Mae C. Jemison was the first African-American female to go into outer space. Ever since she was a little girl she wanted to be an astronaut and on September 12, 1992, her dream came true. After being in the astronaut training program for over a year, she earned the title of science mission specialist. She was the person that conducted scientific experiments on the shuttle she was on, the Endeavour. She had six other astronauts with her on the shuttle on mission STS47 and conducted experiments on motion sickness and weightlessness on them and herself. She spent eight days in space and returned home on September 20, 1992.

My paper is about Irene Joliot – Curie the Nobel – Peace Prize winner that created the first artificial radioactive element. Her life was very successful and fulfilling. Irene’s life was very successful, because she accomplished many things and inspired future scientist. Her and her mom’s work was very useful in World War I. Her work with radiation also became very important to new discoveries of atoms.

On December 28, 1920, Amelia’s life would be changed forever because of the airplane ride with pilot Frank Hawks. By the time they arrive at two or three hundred feet off the ground, Amelia knew that she had to fly. From that day forward flying became Amelia’s life journey. She took flying lessons and did odd jobs to save up to buy her first airplane. She did purchase her first airplane two years later.

On August 27th 1948, Ronald Reagan announced that NASA would send a teacher into space. “Directing NASA to begin a search in all of our elementary and secondary schools and to choose, as the first citizen passenger in the history of our space program, one of America’s finest—a teacher.” In that way, Reagan said, “All of America will be reminded of the crucial role

She became interested in this field when she was watching an airshow and took a ride in a plane for fun. After taking that ride in the plane she fell in love with flying and planes. Amelia Earhart was really first recognized when she set the world record for flying above 14,000 feet. She was the first woman to ever fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and she was the first to fly to Hawaii back to the U.S. The most challenging part of her life would be when her parents left her and her sister with their grandparents, and didn’t come back for 12 years. The most exciting parts were when she would fly because there is a lot of beautiful things to see in the sky. She met Fred Noonan, who went with her on the flight around the world. One of the awards Amelia Earhart received was the Distinguished Flying

This shows that she was strong enough to make it in aviation, and helps show women that might want to go into aviation, but are scared of failure, that they can do it. On June 17, 1928, she flew from Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland with Wilmer Stultz, and Louis Gordon to Burry Point, Wales. Due to weather Wilmer did all the flying on the twenty hour, forty minute flight. After this flight she said she felt she “was just baggage, like a sack of potatoes.”

It was very unlikely for a woman to complete such a task, which is why there were not many women who were a commander on a space shuttle. Nevertheless, two women were strong and passionate enough too completed over 6,000 hours flying over 50 different aircrafts and became commander on space shuttles Colombia and Discovery. Those women are Eileen Collins and Pamela Melroy. However, Pamela Melroy will be the one who is going to be discussed in this paper, despite she was the second female pilot and commander, she was the first female to be commander of the space shuttle