Marion Dietrich (1926 - 1978) was a pilot and one of the Mercury 13 who underwent the same NASA testing in the early 1960's as the Mercury 7 astronauts. ...
Unlike Ride, the names of the women pilots and would-be astronauts are not widely known today: Jerrie Cobb, Bernice Steadman, Janey Hart, Jerri Truhill, Rhea Woltman, Sarah Ratley, Jan and Marion Dietrich, Myrtle Cagle, Irene Leverton, Gene Nora Jessen, Jean Hixson and Wally Funk. Some 40 years late