Wally Funk, a pioneering aviator and the oldest woman to travel to space, has passed away at the age of 87. Funk was part of the Mercury 13, a group of women who underwent astronaut testing in the early 1960s but were excluded from NASA's astronaut program due to their gender. She finally achieved her dream of spaceflight in 2021 aboard Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. AI
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