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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Mary Wallace Funk is an American aviator, commercial astronaut, and Goodwill Ambassador. She was the first female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, the first female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and the first female Federal Aviation Agency inspector, as well as one of the Mercury 13.

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You can look up, you can see the stars, the moon and the sun, and you wonder: How does it all work? I didn't have the answers, but I was thinking about all this floating amongst the stars. That is my objective.

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We hadn't been to space yet, so there was no idea what the human body would have to endure in terms of stress. That's why they tested us to the limit.

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I'm just disappointed the folks never took a picture of me when I was five years old jumping off the barn into a haystack with my Superman cape.

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I've never been bitter.

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Russia will have a woman in space before the United States calls for a crash program for women astronauts.

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My feelings are 'Godspeed, John Glenn.' But I feel badly that he took a spot away from a young astronaut who had probably waited three or four years for that slot. He's already had his ticker-tape parade.

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I first flew in a plane at eight, and by the age of 10 I had mother drive me out to an airstrip to study the planes parked there.

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As a flight instructor 30 years ago, I had quite a few female police officers who wanted to be pilots. But the guys would say 'no.' They wanted those jobs to themselves.

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Well, 'aerospace' was really not a name in my young life. Flying airplanes was. And I got my first try at flying - just pure flying - by flying my 'Superman' cape off my daddy's barn when I was about 5 years old.

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I know that my body and my mind can take anything that any space outfit wants to give me - high altitude chamber test, which is fine; centrifuge test, which I know I can do five and six G's. These things are easy for me.

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I was taught that you could do anything if you wanted it badly enough.

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I went on to Oklahoma State University, who was the best flight school in the United States at that time from the mid '50s on to the '70s.

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Nothing has ever gotten in my way. They say, 'Wally, you're a girl, you can't do that.' I said, 'Guess what, doesn't matter what you are, you can still do it if you want to do it,' and I like to do things that nobody's ever done before.

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It was the era when women were in the kitchen. Space travel was the old-boy network.

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Higher, faster, longer - that is my motto.

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I can't tell people that are watching how fabulous I feel to have been picked by Blue Origin to go on this trip. I'll love every second of it.

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I thought I was going to see the world but we weren't quite high enough.

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I've lived in a man's world all these wonderful years. I've been the only girl in the cockpit, in the conference room, wherever. I have learned how to kick in a lot of doors, and I have dealt with a lot of disappointments. But I will go into space one day, when God thinks it's right or I make it right.

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I was ahead of my time.

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I was brought up that when things don't work out, you go to your alternative.

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Everything that the FAA (the Federal Aviation Administration) has, I've got the license for.

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I've had a great life. And I want that one more thing, to be up in a Virgin Galactic spaceship with Sir Richard Branson.

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I love challenges, and I like 'em hard.

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I've been flying forever and I have 19,600 flying hours.

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I've never met a stranger.

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We may get a few trips but it is the coming generation of women who really will perform in outer space.

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I applied to NASA four times. And finally, they said, Wally, you know, we're sorry, but you don't have an engineering degree. I said, well, I'll get one.

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A skiing accident got me into all this. Since I was a physical education major and this limited by physical activity. I took up flying.

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When I went on to college, I was allowed to take flying, as my mother had dearly loved flying and her father wouldn't allow her to, so they encouraged me then to go on into my aviation career.

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I wasn't a bra burner, I'm not a political person. I saw there was an old-boys' network, but my philosophy has always been to get over it, and move on.

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I think we all know what actually happened. It was a good old boy network, and there was no such thing as a good old girl network.

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I had to drink radioactive water.

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I want to go up there so bad, I've had my sights set since 1962.

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I'm still kicking in doors to keep on going.

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You never forget the airplane you soloed.

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I can take anything. You can whip me and it won't bother me.

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I've done a lot of astronaut training through the world, Russia, America. And I could always beat the guys on what they were doing because I was always stronger and I've always done everything on my own.

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You know me, I go higher, faster, larger, as long as I can.

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I like to do things that nobody has ever done.

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I got a hold of NASA, four times, I said, 'I want to become an astronaut.' But nobody would take me. I didn't think that I would ever get to go up.

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I love flying. That's my job. That's what I love.

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I wanted to go into exploration. I've always been an explorer in my youth.

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And I didn't do dolls... I did outside stuff.

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I was a very, very curious kid.

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I'm a happy kid.

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If I were growing up today, I'd want to be a Navy SEAL.

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I took probably about six or seven different tests throughout the U.S. Then I went to Russia and took the cosmonaut tests. I beat all the guys.

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My first ride in an airplane was at nine years of age, and it was wonderful: the freedom, the smell of the exhaust, the air going over my hair... It was me. It was part of me.

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I get a call - said, do you want to be an astronaut? I said, oh, my gosh, yes. And he said, be here on Monday to take these tests. I had needles stuck in every part of my body, tubes running up my bottom, so I went along with it. It didn't bother me.

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I've been in the Concorde, I've seen the curvature of the Earth, the beginning of the darkness. I want more - I want to go up there.

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What I am already dreaming about is the roar of the take-off, followed by the absolute silence as we go into orbit, and then seeing Earth outside my window.

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I'm a positive person. Things were cancelled? So what? Wally's going on. Why are people so negative? I'm not a quitter.

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