Wally Funk had been intrigued by flying since she was a young child, taking her first flying lesson when she was just nine years old. However, a serious skiing accident at age 16 led her to take up flying again during her recovery, and she eventually earned her pilot’s license by age 17. She would go on to have a history-making career in aviation despite never flying for NASA as an astronaut.
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