Jeannette Piccard

thumb|Jeanette Piccard in 1934 Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (5 January 1895 – 17 May 1981) was an American aeronaut, who pioneered balloon flight, a teacher, scientist and priest. Quotes Sonny, I'm old enough to have changed your nappies. To John Allin, presiding bishop, Episcopal Church of the United States, who had asked the Philadelphia Eleven not to proceed with their ordination as priests. Quoted in Goldman, Ari L. Religion Notes The New York Times 30 July 1994 http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F30813F63C5D0C738FDDAE0894DC494D81 If we do not add something to the knowledge of cosmic rays by our trip to the stratosphere this summer, we had better not go. We had better stay on the ground, be hewers of wood and drawers of water. Quoted in Oakes, Claudia M. United States Women in Aviation: 1930-1939 Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space 1985 http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/AirSpace/text/SSAS-0006.txt When you fly a balloon you don’t file a flight plan; you go where the wind goes. You feel like part of the air. You almost feel like part of eternity, and you just float along. Quoted in Sorenson, Paul Looking Back... AEM Update, University of Minnesota Institute of Technology 1998-1999 http://www.aem.umn.edu/info/update/1998-99/Looking.html There are many reasons, some of them so deep-seated emotionally as to be very difficult of expression. Possibly the simplest explanation is that we started along this road … and I cannot stop until I have won. Her reason for flying as explained to her father Quoted in Shayler, David J. and Moule, Ian A. Women in Space — Following Valentina Springer-Praxis 2005 978-1-84628-078-8 10.1007/1-84628-078-8_1 http://www.springerlink.com/content/v110844356183tq8/ External links Category:Chemists from the United States Category:Clergy from the United States Category:Educators from the United States Category:Inventors Category:People from Chicago Category:Inventors Category:1895 births Category:1981 deaths Category:Women aviators from the United States Category:Women scientists from the United States Category:University of Chicago alumni Category:NASA people