In writing a book about astronauts coming to Chapel Hill, would be easy to overlook contributions of some hidden heroes, like Dr. Jocelyn Gill (fourth figure from the left in the photo above, between Gordon Cooper and Alan Shepard).
With her experience at MIT and her PhD from Yale in 1959, Dr. Gill became the Chief of In-flight Sciences for the Gemini missions in the mid-1960s. She visited Morehead Planetarium on several occasions in order to help astronauts and astronaut trainers integrate training with science goals for various missions.
Want to know more about Jocelyn Gill? Look out for my forthcoming book!
North Carolina Skies: Astronauts in Chapel Hill 