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This kid didn't give up. I’ve been waiting since ’61 to get there, and I’m going.
Wally Funk
Denied a chance to fly into space at the time of the Mercury program because she’s a woman, regards taking a ride on Virgin Galactic. Quoted in AdAstra magazine, Summer 2013.
In flying, you’re always preparing for an alternative. So I went to my alternative. I’m still kicking in doors to keep on going.
Wally Funk
One of the original women of Mercury 13 denied her chance of a spaceflight in the 1960’s — right stuff wrong sex — Wally went on to teach 3,000 people to fly, logged over 19,000 hours, became the first female FAA inspector and the first female NTSB air safety investigator.
She did get to go into space, with Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket on 20 July 2021. Quote from The Dallas Morning News, 20 September 1998.
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