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Mary Wallace Funk (born February 1, 1939) is an American aviator, commercial astronaut, [1] [2] 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 Administration inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13.
Wally Funk wrote an article saying that, given the isolation of the testing, with each woman going through the examination alone or at most in a pair, not all of the women candidates knew each other throughout their years of preparation. It was not until 1994 that ten of the group met in person for the first time.
The Flight of Wally Funk is the fifth studio album by Australian rock band Spiderbait. Named after female aviator Wally Funk , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the album was released in October 2001 and peaked at number 34 on the ARIA charts.
It carried into space American billionaire and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark, pilot and Mercury 13 member Wally Funk, and Dutch student Oliver Daemen. The flight commenced from Blue Origin's Corn Ranch sub-orbital launch site in West Texas aboard the third flight of New Shepard booster NS4 and the spacecraft RSS First Step ...
At age 77, Glenn became the oldest person to go into space, a record that remained unbroken for 23 years until 82-year-old Wally Funk flew on a suborbital flight on Blue Origin NS-16, launching on 20 July 2021, which in turn was broken by William Shatner at age 90 on 13 October 2021 and then by Ed Dwight on May 19, 2024. Glenn, however, remains ...
On 11 March 2022, the band released "My Car's a UFO", their first new song in nine years. The track was initially recorded for The Flight of Wally Funk and served as the lead single from the band's third compilation album, Sounds in the Key of J—which collects every Spiderbait song that Janet English sings lead vocals on. The compilation was ...
Wally Downes (born 1961), English association footballer and coach; Wally Fawkes (1924–2023), British-Canadian jazz clarinettist and satirical cartoonist; Wally Feresten, American cue card handler; Wally Funk (born 1939), American aviator, oldest person to travel into space; Wally Gabler (1944–2025), American football player
This morning Wally Funk, age 82, who once trained to be an astronaut in the 1960s as one of the Mercury 13, became the oldest person ever to fly to space. A success story 50+ years in the making.