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Wally Funk

Wally Funk

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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

Born 1938-02-01 · died 2026-07-08, aged 88