![Nell ‘Mickey’ Bright waits for a formation review at Avenger Field in Texas in 1943. [Credit: Texas Woman’s University Libraries]](https://tbh.express/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/Last-Surviving-WASP-Member-to-Join-International-Air-Space.jpg "Last Surviving WASP Member to Join International Air & Space Hall of Fame")
Nell “Mickey” Stevenson Bright, the last living member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), will be inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame on November 21 at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
The WASP were created during World War II as a means of supporting America’s military operations. Record-setting aviator and businesswoman Jacqueline Cochran was the director of the program. She had influence in Washington, D.C., and was able to persuade the military to embrace women pilots in noncombatant roles to free up the men for flying combat.
