Who broke Peggy's record as the oldest woman ever in space?
Wally Funk
Valentina Tereshkova
Sally Ride
Eileen Collins
Answer
Wally Funk is an American aviator, and one of the Mercury 13 women who were denied the opportunity to train as astronauts in the 1960s. In 2022, at the age of 82, she became the oldest woman to travel into space, after flying aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard spacecraft.
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