Jeannette (Ridlon) Piccard (1895 - 1981)

Born 5 Jan 1895 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Died 17 May 1981 at age 86 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States

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Biography

Jeannette (Ridlon) Piccard is Notable.

Jeannette was born in 1895. She passed away in 1981.

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Jeannette Piccard was an American high-altitude balloonist, and in later life an Episcopal priest. She held the women's altitude record for nearly three decades, and according to several contemporaneous accounts was regarded as the first woman in space. Piccard was the first licensed female balloon pilot in the U.S., and the first woman to fly to the stratosphere.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Source will be added by James Stratman by 29 Jan 2020.
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Piccard

• Wikipedia: Jeanette Ridlon Piccard

• Find A Grave: Jeanette Piccard

See Also:

• https://www.nastarcenter.com/jeannette-piccard-first-woman-to-reach-the-stratosphere