Wally Funk’s church celebrates her Blue Origin spaceflight: “What an inspiration she’s been to us all”
RNS Six decades after being denied a spot in the space program by NASA because of her gender, 82-year-old Wally Funk finally reached space aboard the first human flight of billionaire Jeff Bezos’ space tourism venture, Blue Origin. Few people were more excited for Funk than her fellow congregants at White’s Chapel United Methodist Church […]
Essay: Space tourism – 20 years in the making – is finally ready for launch
In an article first published on The Conversation, WENDY WHITMAN COBB, professor of strategy and security studies at the US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, looks at the gathering impetus for space tourism…