VideoWally Funk and the future of female astronauts Between 1960 and 1961, thirteen American women - all pilots - qualified as astronauts. The Mercury 13 passed the same physical tests as America’s first male astronauts, yet they never made it beyond Earth's atmosphere. Wally Funk was one of them. Video
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