The honor comes after the aviator became at the time the oldest person to travel to space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spacecraft in 2021.
Wally Funk smiles during a post launch briefing where passengers described their flight experience from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas in July 2021.first female flight inspector for the Federal Aviation Administration
in 1971 and one of the first female air safety investigators on the National Transportation and Safety Board in 1974. Sixty years before traveling to space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spacecraft, Funk volunteered for the First Lady Astronaut Trainees program, known as"Mercury 13." She was never selected as an astronaut despite applying four times,on the Blue Origin New Shephard space capsule. At the time of that journey, Funk was the oldest person to fly in space at the age of 82.
Funk was inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, located at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Houston, on Sunday alongside Colleen C. Barrett, R. Walter Cunningham, and Heather Wilson.En EspañolThe Amazon founder became the second billionaire this month to reach the edge of space — following Richard Branson, who rocketed there aboard a vessel made by his company Virgin Galactic.
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