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Kirsten
April 3rd, 2002, 10:27 AM
While John Glenn took his geriatric joyride at taxpayer expense, Wally Funk (of the Mercury 13 and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee) has at age 62 hooked up with Interorbital Systems for a planned 7-day orbit in 2005 at a cost of $2 million:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,673978,00.html

My fingers are crossed on her behalf.

Kirsten
Kirsten
April 4th, 2002, 04:58 PM
I think I got one detail confused- I think Jerrie Cobb (also of the Mercury 13) was the Nobel Peace Prize nominee- not Wally Funk.

Kirsten