Aviation pioneer Wally Funk, who finally went to space half a century after training to be a female astronaut, has died.

By Steve Gorman July 9 (Reuters) - Wally Funk, the trailblazing aviator who became the oldest person to fly to space some 60 ...

Grapevine resident Wally Funk, a pioneer who broke barriers as one of the first female astronaut trainees and the oldest ...

Pilot Wally Funk has died at 87. Denied the chance to become a NASA astronaut, she finally reached space at age 82 aboard a Blue Origin flight.

Wally Funk, 87, was an aviation pioneer and member of the Mercury 13 who underwent astronaut tests. She died Wednesday night ...

The Soyuz 11 crew were the first cosmonauts to die in the vacuum of space, but their spacecraft still managed to make a ...