I went on to Oklahoma State University, who was the best flight school in the United States at that time from the… — Wally Funk Best 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
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
I think we all know what actually happened. It was a good old boy network, and there was no such thing as… — Wally Funk Girl 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've done a lot of astronaut training through the world, Russia, America. And I could always beat the guys on what they… — Wally Funk America Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to see the world but we weren't quite high enough. — Wally Funk Enough Copy Share Image
I was taught that you could do anything if you wanted it badly enough. — Wally Funk Anything 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 Great Copy Share Image
Everything that the FAA (the Federal Aviation Administration) has, I've got the license for. — Wally Funk Administration 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
I was brought up that when things don't work out, you go to your alternative. — Wally Funk Go Copy Share Image
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 Negative Copy Share Image
I wanted to go into exploration. I've always been an explorer in my youth. — Wally Funk Always Copy Share Image
You can look up, you can see the stars, the moon and the sun, and you wonder: How does it all work?… — Wally Funk Astronomy Copy Share Image
My first ride in an airplane was at nine years of age, and it was wonderful: the freedom, the smell of the… — Wally Funk Age Copy Share Image
I get a call - said, do you want to be an astronaut? I said, oh, my gosh, yes. And he said,… — Wally Funk Astronaut Copy Share Image
I can't tell people that are watching how fabulous I feel to have been picked by Blue Origin to go on this… — Wally Funk Blue Copy Share Image
Well, 'aerospace' was really not a name in my young life. Flying airplanes was. And I got my first try at flying… — Wally Funk Aerospace Copy Share Image
I first flew in a plane at eight, and by the age of 10 I had mother drive me out to an… — Wally Funk Age Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever gotten in my way. They say, 'Wally, you're a girl, you can't do that.' I said, 'Guess what, doesn't… — Wally Funk Done 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'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 Cockpit Copy Share Image
