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© AFP 2023 / MARK RALSTON(FILES) In this file photo future space tourists led by Wally Funk (R), who have paid their deposits on the $200,000.00 fare, celebrate before the Virgin Galactic VSS Enterprise spacecraft makes it's first public landing during the Spaceport America runway dedication ceremony near Las Cruces, New Mexico on October 22, 2010
(FILES) In this file photo future space tourists led by Wally Funk (R), who have paid their deposits on the $200,000.00 fare, celebrate before the Virgin Galactic VSS Enterprise spacecraft makes it's first public landing during the Spaceport America runway dedication ceremony near Las Cruces, New Mexico on October 22, 2010 - Sputnik International, 1920, 01.07.2021
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Wally Funk will become the oldest person to blast off into space during the 13-minute flight.
It seems you're never too old to fly into space – just ask octogenarian Wally Funk, who has been chosen by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to accompany him into the deep black onboard his "New Shepard" rocket later this month. 
As Bezos' private spaceflight company Blue Origin has announced, Funk will be an "honoured guest" during the pioneering journey on 20 July. They will be joined by Bezos' brother and the winner of a charity auction who is yet to be revealed. 
A pilot and former aviation instructor, Funk was part of a group of women known as "Mercury 13" who underwent astronaut training in the 1960s but never travelled into space as. At that time, all NASA astronauts were military test pilots and male.
"No one has waited longer," Bezos wrote on Instagram. "It’s time. Welcome to the crew, Wally."
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Funk is now expected to become the oldest person to launch into space, with the current record held by late John Glenn who took off in 1998 at the age of 77.
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