Mercury 13 News

Wally Funk, the last surviving member of the Mercury 13 and the oldest woman to fly into space in 2021, has died at the age of 87. She was part of a group of wo

Wally Funk, the oldest woman to travel into space and one of the original 13 female pilots who underwent astronaut testing in the 1960s, has died at 87.

Wally Funk, a trailblazing pilot and astronaut who flew to space at 82 after a lifetime advocating for women in aviation and aerospace, has passed away at 87. A

Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer and one of the elite women selected for the Mercury 13 program in 1961, has died at the age of 87. She completed the same rigoro