Meet Wally Funk: She passed the same astronaut tests as NASA’s first men in the 1960s but waited 60 years to fly into space

For Wally Funk, the dream of becoming an astronaut began long before women were welcomed into America's space programme. In ...
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International Moon Day: Neil Armstrong to Harrison Schmitt, 12 astronauts who walked on the Moon

The 12 NASA astronauts part of the Apollo program remain the only humans to reach the lunar surface.

Pioneering aviator and astronaut trainee Wally Funk dead at 87

By Steve Gorman July 9 (Reuters) - Wally Funk, the trailblazing aviator who became the oldest person to fly to space some 60 ...