She Once Was Barred from Fighter Jets. Now She’s the Pentagon’s Only Female Four-Star
Oriana Pawlyk
,Military.com•September 13, 2020
It was the morning of June 18, 1983. Jacqueline Van Ovost, just 17 at the time, got up early to witness history in the making.
She flew her father's Cessna 172 Skyhawk up the coast from Fort Pierce to Melbourne, Florida, roughly 25 miles from Cape Canaveral, where Sally Ride was about to embark on NASA's seventh shuttle mission and become the first American woman in space.
Donning her blue "Ride, Sally, Ride" T-shirt in the cockpit, Van Ovost circled in the sky for most of the morning in a holding pattern as the space shuttle Challenger prepared for liftoff, finally streaking across the sky.
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