Wally Funk
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title:
Wally Funk
text:
Mary Wallace Funk is an American aviator, commercial astronaut, and Goodwill Ambassador. She was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13. Funk became the oldest person to go to space on July 20, 2021, at age 82, flying on Blue Origin's New Shepard spacecraft during its suborbital flight, breakin
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American aviator and Mercury 13 astronaut (born 1939)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Funk
date created:
2011-01-24T20:10:02Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T10:46:24Z
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