Wally Funk was one of Nasa's early class of women astronaut candidates In the early 60s, 13 women undertook secret tests at Nasa to see if they could become astronauts. Were it not for rules which prevented them from flying missions, the first woman in space could have been an American. When Nasa astronaut Kate Rubins recently became the 60th woman to go into space, Wally Funk was watching. There
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