astronaut corps, the mercury seven from the ranks of military fighter jet pilots. they were all men. a few years later, there arose a shadow program privately funded and privately administered by the same man who tested the man to test untrain women for the same opportunity. the first woman of recruited for the pilot named jerry cobb was featured in life magazine in the summer of 1960 tidal, a lady proves she s fit first spaceflight. mary wallace, nickname wally was a 21-year-old flight instructor working at fork still in oklahoma when she saw that life magazine story and she was inspired to sign up to be an astronaut. ultimately, 13 women, each of them accomplished pilots, though not allowed to fly fighter jets for the u.s. military tested off the charts on some of the same tests that nasa was putting its mail astronauts through. wally fund said that she was able to endure more than ten
he ended up netting himself and he couldn t get out. more of the painful, yet hysterical video coming out. meanwhile, our slogan this hour comes from linda in illinois. fox & friends is your best deal, with brian, steve and courtney friel. very nice. you re watching fox & friends ! that s a great way to begin your day. thank you, don king. that rhymed. thank you very much. so rare for don king to rhyme. this is where we really caught him in action. courtney, you re in for gretchen today. i am. nice to be here. thanks for having me. and glenn beck is with us. we ll find out in about two minutes why he is wearing a suit. haven t seen him dressed up like that for a while. he is wearing courtney s exact outfit and he had to change. he was a vision in yellow. we have some news. start with the fox news alert. we are waiting for word on when space shuttle discovery will land. nasa scrubbed the first landing attempt in florida about 30 minutes ago.
fox news alert. this just out of nasa. entry flight director brian lunny and his team have decided that the shuttle will land today at 9:08 a.m. on orbit number 238. what this means is there will be a deorbit burn at 8:02. coming up in just about 15 minutes and it will land in just about an hour and 20 minutes and of course, you ll see it all live right here on fox. brian? philadelphia school district accused of spying on students via web cam just got a lot worse. the school now admits snapping nearly 56,000 images of students in their own homes without them knowing it. what are the legal implications? here to help us sort it out is fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. peter, how much worst is it now that we have all these other photos that have been not released but put forward? well, it s bad. and it s technology gone wild
weather? what was it? hey, you re a weather guy. you know what it was. fog and, you know what? there were thundershowers within the 30 mile zone here at the kennedy space center, steve, you know that is a huge issue for nasa. at 6:12 this morning, just a little while ago, mission control told the discovery crew the 7:34 ain t going to happen. pass on this one. and then in the same breath, it told them to look, start looking through the owner s manual, if you will, name specific pages about what that crew needed to do next. nasa most definitely wants to land this bird this morning here in florida. but as you were saying, steve, there are a couple of huge issues that have been playing really out for the past several hours. there was a heavy fog here in this part of florida. central florida. it didn t burn off. it hasn t burned off just yet and also, there are these storms just off the ocean, and there is concern that those things will start to move in just about the same time that the
landing here. what they are hoping also is that as the morning goes on, they re hoping that this strong florida morning sun here in this part of southwest florida will begin to burn off this fog and hopefully the storm showers that we re seeing off the ocean will remain that way off the ocean and will not impede or become part of the trajectory, if you will, for the shuttle to come in. this crew has been up there now for 15 days because this landing was delayed already one day. they have a chance to land at edwards air force base in southern california at 9:01 but nasa is hoping they come here. nasa should decide in one hour or so, steve. orlando salinas live at the space place. thank you very much. let s look at the radar and satellite pictures and we ve got take a look, down in florida, you can see those showers that he was talking about. right now, according to this, there is some precipitation but it s the fog that s the problem.