Patricia S. Cowings

Patricia S. Cowings (born December 15, 1948) is an aerospace psychophysiologist. She was the first American woman to be trained as a scientist astronaut by NASA; though she was an alternate for a space flight in 1979, she did not travel to space. She is most known for her studies in the physiology of astronauts in outer space, as well as helping find cures for astronaut's motion sickness. Quotes Doesn't matter where you are from or what you look like. Doesn't matter if you're poor. A human being can learn and can achieve whatever they set out to do (or come near to it). I've spent my life studying human potential—and stretching my own.Don't give up. No matter how bad or scary it gets. Not even when you ask yourself "What am I doing here?" I’m type O-positive. What type are you? thought that it had to be a tall, pink man that interacted with the astronauts, and that nobody was going to listen to a little brown woman. External links Category:Physiologists Category:Medical scientists Category:NASA people Category:Women scientists from the United States Category:University of California, Los Angeles faculty Category:20th-century African-American women Category:1948 births Category:Living people Category:Women born in the 1940s