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 OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) - Growing up in Texas, Jerri Truhill loved looking at the stars. The night sky over the prairie was so clear she thought she could hear them ring. Decades later, she still wanders outside when she can't sleep.
She looks up and thinks about how close she and 12 other American female pilots came to venturing into space, only to run smack into what seemed like a wall of male tradition and ego.
The women, who trained in secret in the early 1960s, had their dreams dashed when they were told NASA wasn't interested in their training, just days before the group was to leave for spaceflight simulation tests in Pensacola, Fla. Now University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh officials hope they can soothe the women's burning what-ifs by awarding each an honorary doctorate at graduation Saturday.
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