
Flight record
first and only flightFirst and only flight year 2021.
1Flight
10mTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Mary Wallace "Wally" Funk is an American aviator and Goodwill Ambassador. She was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Background
- Born in
- Las Vegas
- Education
- Stephens College; Oklahoma State University
- Awards
- honorary doctorate; Women in Aviation International
From Wikidata.
Flights
- New Shepard | NS-16July 20, 2021
Born 1938-02-01 · died 2026-07-08, aged 88