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Bezos space flight selects female aviator as final participant on space trip

By Mike Brest
Published July 1, 2021 6:10pm ET
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Bezos space flight selects female aviator as final participant on space trip
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos cashed out just over $671 million of stock this week by liquidating over 1 million of his own shares in the company. | (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Billionaire Jeff Bezos selected a female aviation expert to join him on his company’s inaugural trip to space.

Wally Funk, 82, the youngest graduate of the Women in Space Program in the 1960s, will rocket to space with the Amazon CEO, his brother, and an unknown auction winner who spent $28 million to be there, the company announced Thursday.

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