Not wanting to be left out, the Air Force grounded him, too. Bingham speaks before Congress in support of the FLATs joining the astronaut corps. The events depicted in "Flashpoint" span all the way from July 1962 through November 1963, although not always in the order they took place in real life. Lovelace and Cobb recruited 19 more women to take the tests, financed by the husband of world-renowned aviator Jacqueline Cochran. Here is a look at some of the right, wrong and real stuff the fourth episode portrays: New episodes of National Geographic's "The Right Stuff" will begin streaming on Disney+ every Friday through Nov. 20. Unable to meet up with his family due to the weather, Slayton heads to the Starlite Lounge, where he finds von Braun. "I had eyeballs out the window for my attitude my pitch, roll, and yaw attitude," Cooper told NASA in 1998. [EXPOSED], How archaeologist discovered treasures of Apollo below Greek ruins. That was Kurt Debus, a member of von Braun's team. The series shows all of the hoops that the hopeful astronauts had to jump through, and the real life qualifications were just as intense. According to Shepard's biographer Neal Thompson in ". By 1960 she had 7,000 hours of flying time. Annie Glenn, Rene Carpenter, Louise Shepard, Betty Grissom, Trudy Cooper and Marjorie Slayton attend a luncheon held in their honor by the American Newspaper Women's Club on April 27, 1962, in . During his career, Halsell flew five shuttle missions and spent 1,250+ hours in space. She was sentenced to a year of supervised probation, but she was also discharged from the Navy, downgraded from captain to commander, and her service record got an "other than honorable" label. In fact, the Ted Lasso star says she would absolutely be okay wo, The Power (And Risks) Of Therapy On Reality TV, Zin Moreno Is Ready to Tell Her Side of the Story, Can Someone Please Get A Licensed Therapist On The Set Of. Officials planned to charge Nowak with attempted murder, but the charges were downgraded to attempted kidnapping, burglary, and misdemeanor batteryon account of the fact that people don't usually commit murder with pepper spray. I used to think going to therapy meant my healing journey was complete. According to the New York Times, Nowak insisted she only meant to "talk" to the woman, even though she wore a disguise and sprayed pepper spray into her rival's cracked window. These days, the women married to NASAs space travelers are astronauts themselves. As he watched her go, his hopes of seeing the Earth from a Mercury capsule went with her almost.