The First Woman on the Moon

Space by BBC

Nov 20, 201749:49Religion & Spirituality

If history had been kinder, aviator Wally Funk might have become the first woman on the Moon. In the early 1960s, she was one of 13 female pilots who passed the same physical tests as the Mercury 7 astronauts. Unfortunat...

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