Meet Wally Funk, the 82-year-old pilot who just went to space with Jeff Bezos
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After a half-century of waiting, Wally Funk — who trained for NASA's Mercury program but was denied the opportunity to go to space — has finally gotten her time amongst the stars. This morning she flew to space with the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos, and Blue Origin paying customer Oliver Daemen on a ten-minute thrill ride.
"I loved every minute of it. I just wish it had been longer...and could do a lot more rolls and twists and so forth," she said after the flight. "But I loved it I can hardly wait to go again." Funk flew on the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket as an "honored guest," according to a post on Bezos' Instagram.More Related News