Meet Wally Funk: She passed the same astronaut tests as NASA’s first men in the 1960s but waited 60 years to fly into space

For Wally Funk, the dream of becoming an astronaut began long before women were welcomed into America's space programme. In 1961, the gifted pilot completed the same gruelling medical and psychological tests given to NASA's first astronauts as part of the pioneering Mercury 13 programme.

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