Wally Funk, legendary aviation pioneer, to join Jeff Bezos for trip to space
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Wally Funk, an 82-year-old aviation pioneer and one of the 13 female fliers who were tested but ultimately barred from NASA's initially all-male astronaut corps in the 1960s, is finally getting her chance to fly in space, thanks to Jeff Bezos.
Funk has accepted Bezos' invitation to join him, his brother Mark and the yet-to-be named winner of an online auction aboard Bezos' New Shepard spacecraft when it blasts off on its first passenger flight July 20, the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. At 82, Funk will become the oldest person to ever fly in space, eclipsing a record set by John Glenn in 1998 when he flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery at age 77.A cybercriminal group claims it stole personal data belonging to more than 500 million Ticketmaster customers. Although the event ticketing service, owned by Live Nation Entertainment, hasn't confirmed the attack, security experts warn that it could put users of the platform at risk for a range of scams.
Two climbers were waiting to be rescued near the peak of Denali, a colossal mountain that towers over miles of vast tundra in southern Alaska, officials said Wednesday. Originally part of a three-person team that became stranded near the top of the mountain, the climbers put out a distress call more than 30 hours earlier suggesting they were hypothermic and unable to descend on their own, according to the National Park Service.
There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone later learned, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will finally receive is a great day under the Eiffel Tower where she'll be presented with the gold medal she was denied 12 years ago at the London Olympics.