July 9 : Wally Funk, the trailblazing aviator who became the oldest person to fly to space some 60 years after first undergoing astronaut training with 12 other American women at the dawn of the Space Age, has died in Texas at age 87.Her death was announced in a statement posted on Thursday to social media by the city of Grapevine, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, where Funk resided and died at her home the night before, according to the statement. No cause of death was given.Funk, who was barred from NASA's early astronaut corps because of her gender, made headlines late in life when she joined billionaire Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos as his honored guest along with two other passengers on the debut spaceflight of his company Blue Origin's New Shepard rocketship in July 2021."I didn't think I'