Wally Funk was the first female Federal Aviation Administration inspector and first female National Transportation Safety Board air safety investigator. The New Mexico native was 22 when she joined the Mercury 13 program, a group of intrepid women who in 1961 underwent the same training as NASA’s male astronauts. Trailblazer Wally FunkĪt 82, Funk will become the oldest-ever astronaut, fulfilling a longtime ambition stymied by sexism in the 1960s. He has also served as a volunteer firefighter with the Scarsdale Fire Department in Westchester County for more than a decade. Jeff Bezos describes his relationship with his younger brother Mark as “best friends.” Blue Origin In addition, Mark is a director of the Bezos Family Foundation and an exec at Robin Hood, a poverty-fighting nonprofit also based in New York. The younger Bezos is also successful in business, getting his start in marketing, working as an advertising executive before he founded New York-based private equity firm HighPost Capital in 2019. The greatest adventure, with my best friend,” Jeff posted. On July 20th, I will take that journey with my brother. “Ever since I was five years old, I’ve dreamed of traveling to space. Mark Bezos (right, seen here with Jeff Bezos) is a volunteer firefighter, director of the Bezos Family Foundation, and an executive at Robin Hood. The pair are “best friends,” Jeff said in a video on Instagram last month, in which he surprised Mark with an invitation to space. Mark, 51, is the Amazon founder’s younger brother by six years. Here’s what you need to know about the soon-to-be astronauts: Financier Mark Bezos The motley crew will be aboard the space tourism company’s New Shepard rocket, which is set to blast off around 9 a.m. The manifest for the 11-minute trip to the edge of space includes the billionaire’s brother, Mark Bezos, trailblazing aviator Wally Funk and Oliver Daemen, a wealthy teenager from the Netherlands. Three lucky passengers will join Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Tuesday on Blue Origin’s first commercial spaceflight. Work stopped on Bezos’ megamansion as his net worth drops by $57B Jeff Bezos will not be bidding on Washington Commanders
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