Aviation Pioneer Wally Funk, Oldest Woman To Travel Into Space, Dies At 87
- Posted on July 9, 2026
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Aviation Pioneer Wally Funk, Oldest Woman To Travel Into Space, Dies At 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 she only made it to space in 2021 aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket.
