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Wally Funk, aviation pioneer who was oldest woman to travel into space, dies at 87

Published: 7/9/2026, 9:21:52 PM 1 source(s)
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Funk was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA's all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s but never made it into space. Newsiline summarises this report from PBS NewsHour Headlines and links readers to the original publisher for the full story.

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