Aviation pioneer and commercial astronaut Wally Funk died July 8 in her Grapevine, Texas, home at the age of 87, according to a news release from the City of Grapevine. The statement said Funk passed “peacefully surrounded by her loved ones.” Funk was born in Las Vegas, N.M., in 1939 and dedicated her life to aviation. She left a legacy of breaking barriers in her career as one of the pilots of the all-female Mercury 13 test program, where she out-performed her male counterparts on Mercury 7.