Wally Funk Passes Away at 87
The Pure Report account · 4 sources · as of Jul 11, 00:01 UTC
Wally Funk passed away at the age of 87 on Wednesday evening at her apartment in an assisted living facility in Grapevine, Texas. Funk was the oldest woman to travel into space. She traveled to space with Jeff Bezos aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard in 2021. Funk was denied the opportunity to become a NASA astronaut and was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA's all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s.
What we know
- Wally Funk was the oldest woman to travel into space.
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“became the oldest woman to travel into space” — verbatim from Guardian — US · article
Attributed reporting
- According to Guardian — US, Wally Funk died peacefully at her apartment in an assisted living facility in Grapevine, Texas.
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“Funk died peacefully on Wednesday evening at her apartment in an assisted living facility in Grapevine, Texas” — verbatim from Guardian — US · article - According to Guardian — US, Wally Funk was denied the opportunity to become a NASA astronaut.
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“was denied the opportunity to become a Nasa astronaut” — verbatim from Guardian — US · article - According to The Hill, Wally Funk traveled to space with Jeff Bezos aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard in 2021.
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“In 2021, Wally Funk traveled to space with Jeff Bezos aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard” — verbatim from The Hill · article - According to PBS NewsHour, Wally Funk was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA's all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s.
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“Funk was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA's all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s” — verbatim from PBS NewsHour · article
Framing spectrum · 4 outlets
Coverage patterns
Earliest report in our feed set (publisher timestamps): among the earliest were PBS NewsHour and The Hill — stamps within 90 minutes.
| Lean | Outlets | Articles | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| Left | 1 | 1 | Guardian |
| Center | 1 | 1 | The Hill |
| Right | 1 | 1 | New York Post |
| Unclassified | 1 | 1 | PBS NewsHour |
Report-by-report timeline · 4
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