Ep 263: "Higher. Faster. Longer."With Wally Funk and Sue Nelson
Have you heard of Mercury 13? The all female team of astronauts who never actually made it into space?
First up the badass Ladies Harriet and Emma are joined this week by by Anjula Mutanda author and psychologist who's is sitting in for Natalie! they are making the most of having her in the studio and are breaking down some of the most recent couplings in the Love Island Villa! they're taking Yewande and Danny's relationship, their "attachment types" and why they might not be the best for each other?!
The Ladies are joined by Wally Funk the ultimate badass role model for women in space! It has been 50 years since the infamous Apollo 11 left for space in 1969, but what about the lesser known Mercury 13? Wally Funk was one of the 13 women who passed all the same test as the men of Apollo 11 but their mission into the solar system never actually took place. Wally shares her infatuation for aviation and says she had her first flying lesson at just age 9!
Wally is joined by science writer Sue Nelson who has taken all of Wally's incredible stories and made them part of aeronautical history documenting everything in her book; Wally Funk's Race for Space: The Extraordinary Story of a Female Aviation Pioneer.
Harriet Emma and by Anjula hear about her strength in carrying on despite not achieving her dream of going into space when she had passed all the relevant tests, Wally carried on taking aeronautical tests, exploring aviation, and even going to become an investigator, she shares some of the details of her amazing life and career, Higher Faster Longer is her motto for anything she takes on in life and her passion for life is evident!
Wally speaks about the freedom her mother gave her as a child the life lessons she was taught asa child and how living close to Native Indians made her the strong tenacious woman she is today, we also hear about the sexism that female astronauts have faced over history!
Wally will finally make it into space at the age of 80! After decades of work, training and a pure love of space travel Wally is planning on travelling with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic.
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