Oklahoma-connected aviation pioneer Wally Funk has died at the age of 87, the City of Grapevine announced Thursday.

Capt. Joe Engle is known as the only person to fly both the X-15 and Space Shuttle, thus being the only person to enter space ...

Wally Funk, a pioneering aviator, member of the Mercury 13, and the oldest woman ever to travel into space, has died, according to NASA.

Aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who finally went to space half a century after training to be a female astronaut, has died.

By Steve Gorman July 9 (Reuters) - Wally Funk, the trailblazing aviator who became the oldest person to fly to space some 60 years after first undergoing astronaut training with 12 other American ...

She inspired generations of pilots and astronauts through her trailblazing work as a member of NASA’s “Women in Space Program ...

Houston was Command Central for first American spacewalk. Gemini IV was inaugural flight overseen by the cutting-edge Mission ...

When she was 82, Funk became the oldest woman to travel to space on Jeff Bezos’s New Shepard NS-16 Blue Origin rocket.

Wally Funk, who flew to space at 82 after a lifetime of flying and fighting for women in aviation and aerospace, has passed ...

A pioneer of the early space program and the oldest woman to go into space has died. Wally Funk was 87 years old. She passed ...

Wally Funk was selected in 1961 as one of the elite women in the Mercury 13 program, finishing the same rigorous training program given to the Mercury 7 astronauts.

Wally Funk, who lived in Grapevine, has died, according to the city. In 2021, Funk was celebrated by the city of Grapevine ...