Wally Funk has finally been to space. She's 82, and the oldest person to go there. (She broke John Glenn's record.) But she's also a remarkable figure and an inspiration to people who don't accept "no" for an answer. Via the NYTimes: Her path to space arguably begins with a ski accident in 1956 that crushed two of her vertebrae. She was told she would never walk again. By age 17, she already had a history of greeting “you can’t” with defiant proof that she could. As she was recovering, a guidance counselor suggested that she take aviation classes to distract her. In the book “Promised the Moon” by Stephanie Nolen, Ms. Funk said that during her first flight up, in a Cessna 172, “The bug bit and that was it.”