[Sis Loople] “Punk, now fly to your heart’s content”... The dream of becoming an astronaut, frustrated because she was a woman, was fulfilled after 60 years.

“I will fly until I die.” In 2019, ahead of the space flight that had been his lifelong dream, Wally Funk responded to a reporter’s question, “Do you think there will come a time when you have to stop flying?” Wally Funk is happy after receiving his astronaut badge after completing the first manned space flight by Blue Origin, an American private space exploration company, on July 30, 2021 (local time).