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Wally Funk: Space Pioneer at 82 | Texas News
Wally Funk, the fearless aviation trailblazer who shattered glass ceilings and finally soared into space at 82, passed away at 87—leaving behind a legacy of courage, determination, and inspiration for generations. A Mercury 13 pioneer, FAA’s first female inspector, and NTSB’s first female air safety investigator, she trained thousands of pilots and lived her dream aboard Jeff Bezos’s New Shepard rocket, calling it “the most fabulous thing of her life.” Despite being denied astronaut status in 1962 over a lack of an engineering degree, she never stopped chasing the stars—and her story proves…
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