When American billioniore Jeff Bezos blast off into space later this month. He’ll bring 82 year old Wally Funk with him.
Funk is one of the 13 women who completed a NASA astronaut training program in 1960s, and will be oldest person ever to travel into to space. Funk was 21 year old when she passed the training. In 1960 she was a part of program to determine whether women were fit for space or not.
They told me I’ve done better and completed the work faster than any of the guys, Ms Funk said in a video posted on Mr. Bezos account. But women were denied the chance to become astronaut because of their gender.
In a video posted to social media on Thursday, Bezos space firm blue origin announced that Funk would be among the passengers. Also she will join Jeff Bezos’s brother Mark and the other traveler who paid 28 million, winner of an auction on 20 July. Bezos is currently the richest man on the planet. He is been flying with fellow billionaires Elon Musk and Richard Branson to become the first, to travel into space on a privately developed rocket.
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