• Question: how old is the youngest person who has been into space?

    Asked by jess4coop to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 19 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Karen Masters

      Karen Masters answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Google always has the answer – a link to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut which says the youngest person was a German man who was 25 when he flew with the Russians in 1961. The oldest was John Glenn who went up with NASA when he was 77 (in 1998).

    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Yeah, I would have had to look this up ^

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Darn! Even if I went into space tomorrow (and I would if I could!) I still wouldn’t be the youngest. Maybe you can try to be?

      I think it’s wonderful that despite his terrible disease, Stephen Hawking got to go into space

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Gosh, only 25 😐

      But did he have to do a lot or was the launch fairly automatic? A lot of Russian ones were controlled from the ground.

      The youngest person on the moon was 36 and a half, the oldest 47. So I’m still in with a chance…anyone offering a lift toward Luna in the next two years?

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