Wally Funk, Who Set an Age Record for Space Travel, Dies at 87

As a young woman in the 1960s, she wasn’t allowed to become a NASA astronaut. She finally realized her long-held dream of flying in space as an octogenarian.Wally Funk in 2021, after returning from a roughly 10-minute spaceflight aboard a rocket built by the company Blue Origin. “I loved every minute of it,” she said. “I just wish it had been longer.”