Pioneering female aviator Wally Funk is ‘America’s new sweetheart’

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Wally Funk became the oldest person to reach space on Tuesday – some 60 years after first undergoing astronaut training. Funk was one of the so-called Mercury 13 group of women who trained to become NASA astronauts in the 1960s but was passed over because of her gender. On Tuesday, at the age of 82, […]

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