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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.
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 ...
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.
At age 82, the aviation pioneer was once denied a chance to become an astronaut because of her gender. On Tuesday, her dream of seeing what lies beyond Earth was achieved.
Wally Funk was one of the Mercury 13 female aviators who trained to go to space in the 1960s. Now, she has her chance on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin trip.
Funky Winkerbean was an American comic strip by Tom Batiuk.Distributed by North America Syndicate, a division of King Features Syndicate, it appeared in more than 400 newspapers worldwide.
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.