I can be patient no longer

An aspiring astronaut pleads with JFK to be sent into space

Jerrie Cobb, 29, Okla. City, the only woman to qualify as an astronaut, stands beside a model of the G.E. Discoverer Satellite Recovery Vehicle during the 7th Annual Astronautical Society meeting. Cobb set the world's altitude record at 36,932 feet. (Photo by NASA via Getty)

Born in Oklahoma in 1931 to Lt. Col. William H. Cobb and Helena Butler Stone Cob…