{"id":2055,"date":"2021-07-04T10:38:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T08:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/04\/this-space-race-has-its-downside-rocketwoman-wally-funk-joins-crew-for-jeff-bezoss-ego-trip\/"},"modified":"2021-07-04T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T08:38:42","slug":"this-space-race-has-its-downside-rocketwoman-wally-funk-joins-crew-for-jeff-bezoss-ego-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/04\/this-space-race-has-its-downside-rocketwoman-wally-funk-joins-crew-for-jeff-bezoss-ego-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"This space race has its downside\u2026 Rocketwoman Wally Funk joins crew for Jeff Bezos\u2019s ego trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

The veteran US pilot is set to become the oldest woman in space \u2013 the only snag is she has to go with the Amazon billionaire <\/p>\n

You have to feel for the American pilot Wally Funk. You would sympathise with anyone with that name, but she has had a particularly mixed week. On one hand, at 82, she is set to finally fulfil her life\u2019s ambition and travel into space<\/a>. Funk was one of the most promising female candidates for the Mercury 13<\/a> programme in the 1960s, but was denied a spot because of her gender. Right stuff, wrong parts. On Thursday, the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, announced on Instagram that Wally would become the oldest person in space as one of the four passengers on New Shepard, the rocket being launched by his company Blue Origin on 20 July. \u201cI didn\u2019t think I\u2019d ever get to go up,\u201d Funk said in an interview.<\/p>\n

The obvious downside, which she was too polite to mention, is that she has to ride with Bezos, his brother and one other, in a kind of UberPool from hell. She ought to have been more specific to the genie. Midlife does strange things to men, and so does being a billionaire. The combination leads to some odd outcomes. Not content with building his own rockets, Jeff, as he approaches 60, has decided to start riding them as well. Towers and yachts are so pass\u00e9. Private space travel is the thing. Elon Musk is at it, too, and presumably a load of guys in China.<\/p>\n

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\nThe veteran US pilot is set to become the oldest woman in space \u2013 the only snag is she has to go with the Amazon billionaire
\nYou have to feel for the American pilot Wally Funk. You would sympathise with anyone with that name, but she has had a particularly mixed week. On one hand, at 82, she is set to finally fulfil her life\u2019s ambition and travel into space. Funk was one of the most promising female candidates for the Mercury 13 programme in the 1960s, but was denied a spot because of her gender. Right stuff, wrong parts. On Thursday, the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, announced on Instagram that Wally would become the oldest person in space as one of the four passengers on New Shepard, the rocket being launched by his company Blue Origin on 20 July. \u201cI didn\u2019t think I\u2019d ever get to go up,\u201d Funk said in an interview.
\nThe obvious downside, which she was too polite to mention, is that she has to ride with Bezos, his brother and one other, in a kind of UberPool from hell. She ought to have been more specific to the genie. Midlife does strange things to men, and so does being a billionaire. The combination leads to some odd outcomes. Not content with building his own rockets, Jeff, as he approaches 60, has decided to start riding them as well. Towers and yachts are so pass\u00e9. Private space travel is the thing. Elon Musk is at it, too, and presumably a load of guys in China. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The veteran US pilot is set to become the oldest woman in space \u2013 the only snag is she has to go with the Amazon billionaire You have to feel for the American pilot Wally Funk. You would sympathise with anyone with that name, but she has had a particularly mixed week. On one hand, …<\/p>\n

This space race has its downside\u2026 Rocketwoman Wally Funk joins crew for Jeff Bezos\u2019s ego trip<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}