56-Year-Old NASA Astronaut Peggy Whitson Is The Oldest Woman In Space

Meera Dolasia
Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:17:42 -0800

On November 19, after two days aboard a Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft, NASA’s Peggy Whitson, along with Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and rookie ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, docked at the International Space Station (ISS). In doing so, America’s most experienced female astronaut became the oldest woman in space, breaking the former record set by Barbara Morgan who reached the ISS at age 55.