Wally Funk, trailblazing aviator who waited 60 years to go to space, dies at 87

When Wally Funk was 5, she donned a Superman cape and leaped from the roof of her family’s barn in New Mexico, dreaming of flight and landing in a haystack. She decorated her bedroom ceiling with model planes, earned her pilot’s license as a teenager and began a six-decade journey to space at age 2...

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