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Wally Funk, a North Texas aviation pioneer, dead at age 87

Wally Funk, a North Texas aviation pioneer, dead at age 87
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Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer who became the oldest woman to travel to space, has died at 87. The city of Grapevine, Texas, where she lived, announced that she died peacefully, surrounded by loved ones.

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