Portal:Spaceflight/Did you know/2008 Fortnight 9

John Glenn (NASA)

• …that the oldest person to fly in space was John Glenn (pictured), aboard Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95 (29 October-7 November 1998), at the age of 77.

• …and that the youngest person to fly in space was Gherman Titov, on Vostok 2 (6 -7 August 1961), aged 25.

• …that Soyuz TMA-13, currently scheduled to launch on 12 October 2008, will be the 100^th manned Soyuz flight.