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Description
Born in Iowa in 1938 and raised in Florida, she knew all about speed. Her father, a pilot, had encouraged his daughter to pursue her goal of flying and Janet Guthrie eventually did a solo flight for the first time at age 16. She went on to study physics, work as a research and development engineer and passed the first tests to be an astronaut. She also had 13 years of road racing experience, including building and fixing her own cars, before that ground-breaking day years later at Indianapolis, Indiana.