Meet Wally Funk: She passed the same astronaut tests as NASA’s first men in the 1960s but waited 60 years to fly into space

For Wally Funk, the dream of becoming an astronaut began long before women were welcomed into America's space programme. In ...

Wally Funk, female astronaut trained by Nasa in 1960s but who had to wait 60 years to go to space

Wally Funk, who has died aged 87, became the oldest woman and, briefly, before she was beaten by the Star Trek actor William ...