Who Is Wally Funk? Everything On First female FAA and NTSB Inspector

Wally Funk, aged 82, became the oldest person ever to go to space as she flew on Blue Origin along with Jeff Bezos and two others. Learn more about Wally, including her husband in this article.

Mary Wallace ‘Wally’ Funk is an American aviator who became the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board. 

She is a member of Mercury 13, a space program in 1961, and the only member of the Mercury 13 who traveled to space.

She waited for more than fifty years to fulfill her dream of space travel.

Wally Funk Isn’t Gay Or Lesbian: Meet Her Husband

Wally Funk is not married and therefore, doe not have a husband. She also has not revealed her sexuality as gay or lesbian either.

Wally Funk has not shared information about her sexuality publicly. Therefore, there have been speculations about her being a lesbian or gay. But these rumors seem to be fake.

There is no information on the web about Wally’s sexual orientation. Also, she was not chosen back in 1960 because she was a woman. She spent most of her life teaching her students how to fly.

Wally Funk On Mercury 13 And Blue Origin

Wally Funk was one of the thirteen members of Mercury 13 which was a space program in 1961 for women. She was the youngest in the group and was just twenty-one years at that time.

Mercury 13 was privately funded and the participants had to go through series of tests similar to astronauts selection by NASA for the Project Mercury in 1959. Unfortunately, Mercury 13 was canceled and Wally became a Goodwill Ambassador.

However, Wally finally fulfilled her long-awaited journey after almost six decades.

She became the oldest person to go to space a the age of 82 in Blue Origin. She traveled with Jeff Bezos and two others on the first-ever human space flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepherd spacecraft.

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