Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, has selected an 82-year-old female aerospace pioneer to travel to space with him on July 20. Blue Origin is preparing to launch its ...

History will be made on July 20 when Mary Wallace Funk, at age 82, becomes the oldest person to go to space. Despite a long and prestigious aerospace career, Funk has never made a journey to space.

On Tuesday July 20 Amazon founder and the richest man Jeff Bezos launched himself to space in his new spacecraft, to help pioneer a new era of private commercial space tourism. For approximately 11 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Mary "Wally" Wallace Funk is a Pilot with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1999 Interview. Most common tag: Space. Blue Origin, owned by ...