This space race has its downside… Rocketwoman Wally Funk joins crew for Jeff Bezos’s ego trip

The veteran US pilot is set to become the oldest woman in space – 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, at 82, she is set to finally fulfil her life’s 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 o