Wally Funk Heads To Space

With Jeff Bezos:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 82-year-old Wally Funk will head to space on Blue Origin's flight Tuesday morning, becoming the oldest person to launch into space.

As a flight instructor born and raised in Taos, New Mexico, Funk has logged 20,000 hours of flight time and has guided 3,000 students to get their private pilot license. 

In the early 1960s, Funk was one of the Mercury 13, a group of 13 American women who passed the same rigorous physical examinations as NASA's first astronauts. But even with that – and all of her accomplishments – she never made it to space.