Women Beefing: A Space-Age Trope Deinfluenced

Two women pilots — both talented, but only one can reign in space. Or so this story has been told.

Wearing a swipe of her signature red lipstick, Jacqueline Cochran is ready for war during WWII as the leader of the WASPs. Photo credit: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Jacqueline Cochran may have been the most decorated record-breaking pilot (not just as a woman pilot, but as a pilot, period), but one story about her life and career tends to linger the most, thanks to countless books and documentaries, and perhaps more so than her numerous awards…