• Question: How old is the oldest person to ever go to the ISS?

    Asked by 299trn28 to Anne, Beth, COLFlight, Jon, Tom on 9 Oct 2015.
    • Photo: Columbus Flight Directors

      Columbus Flight Directors answered on 9 Oct 2015:

      Sergio:
      Hi!
      A bit of statistics here for you 🙂
      The oldest ever to go to the ISS was Dennis Tito, who went as a space tourist when he was 60.7 years old.
      Paolo Nespoli, the ESA Italian astronaut, will go again to the ISS in 2017, and he will be 60 years old.
      The oldest person to go to space, but not on the ISS, was the american astronaut and senator John Glenn, who flew with the Space Shuttle in 1998, when he was 77 years old

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