Aviation Pioneer Wally Funk To Fly With Bezos

Irene Klotz July 01, 2021
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Pictured in her younger days, Wally Funk is set to become the oldest person to fly in space aged 82.
Credit: Blue Origin
Wally Funk, one of 13 women recruited as potential astronauts for NASA’s 1960s Mercury program but sidelined due to gender, will fly as a guest of Blue Origin on the company’s first crewed flight, targeted for July 20. Funk, 82, will join Blue Origin founder and funder Jeff Bezos, his brother, Mark...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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