Oliver Daemen (Netherlands) is the youngest person to go to space at the age of just 18 years 334 days.
The greatest adventure, with my best friend." AdvertisementsĪ post shared by Oliver Daemen Youngest person to go to space On July 20th, I will take that journey with my brother. He wrote on Instagram before the flight: "Ever since I was five years old, I’ve dreamed of traveling to space. Advertisementsīlue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and his brother Mark (both USA) are the first siblings to go to space together. With the flight, Funk surpassed a record set in 1998 by the late Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn, who joined the crew of Space Shuttle mission STS-95 at 77 years of age. Wally, a trailblazer for female aviators everywhere, finally was able to achieve her lifelong goal of flying into space for the first time at the age of 82. First female Federal Aviation Agency inspector.First female civilian flight instructor at Fort Sill, Oklahoma (a United States Army base).First female air safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board.Wally was determined to carve a path for herself in the exclusively male aviation industry. Her historic achievements include: Wally was one of the 13 women that passed these tests, scoring higher than the male candidates in several areas. Wally is an American aviator who was one of the 13 females to take part in the "Mercury 13" program, a privately-funded initiative that would subject a group of 25 women pilots to the same gruelling physical and mental tests that the "Mercury 7" group of male astronauts went through. February 1, 1939) was 82 years 169 days old on the day of the flight. The records broken on this landmark spaceflight were: Advertisements The 11-minute journey took them past the Kármán Line, the internationally recognized boundary of space.
A post shared by Jeff Bezos astronauts on board were Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, aviation pioneer Wally Funk, and Blue Origin’s first customer, then 18-year-old Oliver Daemen.
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