The oldest woman to launch into space has died. A pioneering American aviator who fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming an astronaut at the age of 82, Wally Funk died of natural causes at her home ...

Wally Funk, the youngest member of the pioneering "Mercury 13" women's space program, died at 87. Denied her initial astronaut dream when the "Women in Space Program" was shut down in 1961, Funk ...

Wally Funk, a pioneering aviator who volunteered to be an astronaut for NASA’s “Women in Space Program” in 1961, has died at the age of 87. Funk passed away at her home in Grapevine, Texas, Wednesday ...

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Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer who became the oldest woman to travel to space, has died at 87. The city of Grapevine, Texas, where she lived, announced on Thursday that she died peacefully the ...

Aviation trailblazer Wally Funk, who lived in Grapevine and was the oldest woman to launch into space, has died, according to the city. Funk died Wednesday at her apartment in an assisted living ...

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GRAPEVINE, Texas — Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer who was the oldest woman to launch into space, has died. She was 87. Funk died Wednesday at her apartment in an assisted living facility in the ...

Pioneering American aviator who was the oldest woman to fly into space aged 82 in 2021 As an aviator, Wally Funk, who has died aged 87, was a trailblazing pioneer for women, breaking barriers for ...

Aviation pioneer and commercial astronaut Wally Funk died July 8 in her Grapevine home at the age of 87, according to a news release from the City of Grapevine. The statement said Funk passed ...

Texas resident, icon of the aviation world, and former record holder Wally Funk died on Wednesday evening in Grapevine, Texas. She was 87 years old. Born on Feb. 1, 1939 in Las Vegas, Funk had several ...

“Her story will continue to inspire generations of future explorers. Fly Wally, Fly,” Blue Origin wrote in a tribute post to the trailblazing aviator Kimberlee Speakman is a Writer-Reporter on the ...