I'm a positive person. Things were cancelled? So what? Wally's going on. Why are people so negative? I'm not a quitter. — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
We may get a few trips but it is the coming generation of women who really will perform in outer space. — Wally Funk Generation Copy Share Image
I wanted to go into exploration. I've always been an explorer in my youth. — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
I was brought up that when things don't work out, you go to your alternative. — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
It was the era when women were in the kitchen. Space travel was the old-boy network. — Wally Funk Era Copy Share Image
Russia will have a woman in space before the United States calls for a crash program for women astronauts. — Wally Funk Astronauts Copy Share Image
Everything that the FAA (the Federal Aviation Administration) has, I've got the license for. — Wally Funk Administration Copy Share Image
I'm just disappointed the folks never took a picture of me when I was five years old jumping off the barn into… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
What I am already dreaming about is the roar of the take-off, followed by the absolute silence as we go into orbit,… — Wally Funk Dreaming Copy Share Image
I took probably about six or seven different tests throughout the U.S. Then I went to Russia and took the cosmonaut tests.… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
I got a hold of NASA, four times, I said, 'I want to become an astronaut.' But nobody would take me. I… — Wally Funk Astronaut Copy Share Image
A skiing accident got me into all this. Since I was a physical education major and this limited by physical activity. I… — Wally Funk Accident Copy Share Image
When I went on to college, I was allowed to take flying, as my mother had dearly loved flying and her father… — Wally Funk Career Copy Share Image
I applied to NASA four times. And finally, they said, Wally, you know, we're sorry, but you don't have an engineering degree.… — Wally Funk Engineering Copy Share Image
I know that my body and my mind can take anything that any space outfit wants to give me - high altitude… — Wally Funk Body Copy Share Image
I've lived in a man's world all these wonderful years. I've been the only girl in the cockpit, in the conference room,… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to see the world but we weren't quite high enough. — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
I've had a great life. And I want that one more thing, to be up in a Virgin Galactic spaceship with Sir… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
As a flight instructor 30 years ago, I had quite a few female police officers who wanted to be pilots. But the… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
My feelings are 'Godspeed, John Glenn.' But I feel badly that he took a spot away from a young astronaut who had… — Wally Funk Astronaut Copy Share Image
I wasn't a bra burner, I'm not a political person. I saw there was an old-boys' network, but my philosophy has always… — Wally Funk Copy Share Image
We hadn't been to space yet, so there was no idea what the human body would have to endure in terms of… — Wally Funk Body Copy Share Image
