Wally Funk death: Oldest woman to travel into space dies at 87
Before finally reaching space, Wally Funk trained more than 3,000 pilots, logged over 19,000 flight hours and broke numerous gender barriers in aviation. LOS…
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Before finally reaching space, Wally Funk trained more than 3,000 pilots, logged over 19,000 flight hours and broke numerous gender barriers in aviation. (Reuters pic) LOS ANGELES : Wally Funk, the trailblazing aviator who became the oldest person to fly to space some 60 years after first undergoing astronaut training with 12 other American women at the dawn of the Space Age, has died in Texas at age 87. Funk was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA’s all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s but never made it into space. But Funk remains in the record books as the oldest woman to have traveled to space.
Furthermore, Her death was announced in a statement posted on Thursday to social media by the city of Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, where Funk resided and died at her home the night before, according to the statement.
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Before finally reaching space, Wally Funk trained more than 3,000 pilots, logged over 19,000 flight hours and broke numerous gender barriers in aviation. (Reuters pic) LOS ANGELES : Wally Funk, the trailblazing aviator who became the oldest person to fly to space some 60 years after first undergoing astronaut training with 12 other American women at the dawn of the Space Age, has died in Texas at age 87.
reliability moderate2/3 sourcesFunk was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA’s all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s but never made it into space
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But Funk remains in the record books as the oldest woman to have traveled to space.
according to Free Malaysia TodayHer death was announced in a statement posted on Thursday to social media by the city of Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, where Funk resided and died at her home the night before, according to the statement.
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Funk was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA’s all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s but never made it…
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