[3] The flight took 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds and covered 24,986 miles (40,211 km), almost doubling the old distance record set by a Boeing B-52 strategic bomber in 1962.

[4] Following graduation from high school, Yeager, at age 19, married a police officer; they divorced five years later.

[1] She then worked as a draftsman and surveyor for a geothermal energy company in Santa Rosa, California.

Initially unable to find a commercial sponsor, Yeager started the Voyager Impressive People (VIP) program which became the major source of money to build, test, and fly the aircraft.

[2] In recognition of the 1986 Voyager flight, Yeager received both the Harmon and National Air and Space Museum (NASM) trophies, the FAI De la Vaulx Medal, the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Ronald Reagan and the Collier Trophy (becoming its first female recipient).