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Wally Funk, 82, is the oldest person ever to fly to space. It's a dream 60 years in the making: in 1961, she passed dozens of exams for the Women in Space program before the U.S. government shut it down. That prevented her from going to space. Until now. https://t.co/HPWF3CNIwu — PolitiTweet.org

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Wally Funk has applied 4 times to be an astronaut and was rejected every time, allegedly because she had never gotten an engineering degree — although astronaut John Glenn, who was selected for the Mercury program, also did not have an engineering degree. https://t.co/HPWF3CNIwu — PolitiTweet.org