Tereshkova was not only the first woman in space, but also the youngest – her record of 26 years still stands today. Titov was also the first person to sleep in space, and reportedly the first to suffer from "space sickness" (motion sickness in space). He was the second person to orbit the Earth, performing 17 loops around our planet during his 25-hour flight. Youngest person in spaceĬosmonaut Gherman Titov was one month shy of his 26th birthday when he launched into orbit aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 2 in August 1961. The oldest woman in space was Peggy Whitson (opens in new tab), who was 57 years old during her last flight (Expeditions 50, 51 and 52 in 2016-2017). So Glenn holds another record as well: the longest time between trips to space (36 years 8 months). The mission marked Glenn's second spaceflight he had become the first American to orbit the Earth back in February 1962. John Glenn (opens in new tab), D-Ohio, was 77 when he flew on space shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission in October 1998. Since then, dozens of nations from all over the world have seen their citizens fly in space on American, Soviet or Russian spacecraft. The first nation outside of those two countries to fly an astronaut was the former Czechoslovakia, which saw Vladimir Remek fly on the Soviet Soyuz 28 mission in 1978. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride (opens in new tab), who reached space on Jas part of space shuttle mission STS-7.įor almost 20 years, the Americans and the Soviets were the only nations with astronauts. The next woman in space, Svetlana Savitskaya, didn't fly until 1982.
There were several other female cosmonauts selected with her, but none of the others flew. The first female in space was Valentina Tereshkova (opens in new tab), a Russian cosmonaut, who flew in space in June 1963.
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