Don Pellmann, 100-Year-Old Athlete With 5 Senior Olympic Medals Is Part Of The NASA Apollo Program

He is a 100 years old, but has achieved many milestones.

On Sunday, at the San Diego Senior Games, he broke five world records at the Senior Olympics, as the temperature shot up to 100 degrees.

He is a record holder in the long and high jump, the shot-put, discus and 100 metres sprint, and ran his 100 metres in 26.99 seconds! He is also the first person over the age of 100 to clear a bar in the high jump, eventually reaching 0.90 metres.

With 895 medals to his name, Pellmann has just five medals that are not gold!

Still, these were events that he began to contribute to only after retiring in 1970, , according to HNGN.

His longevity as well as health are due to balanced, sensible eating, and exercise. "People ask me what do you attribute your success [to] and I can say four words: 'eat sensibly and exercise' - those are the things that you have to do. Eat sensibly, keep your weight down, and exercise every time you get a chance," he explained according to Fox News.

Don Pellmann has also worked on NASA's Apollo program as an employee of AC Electronics, a division of General Motors that made some of the parts for the Apollo program's guidance and navigation systems.

"That was the highpoint of my career. It's amazing that we had such great engineering accomplishments such a long time ago. It was a minor part of the program, but a very important part. We had some of the finest mechanics and some of the finest machines available," Pellmann said.

He had been a supervisor of AC Electronics' tool room and model shop in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, where he managed, in cooperation with MIP, the production of parts for accelerometers and gyroscopes, reports Fox News.

Pellman has never met a single astronaut, yet he feels that he has been part of an incredible human development. "It was an extraordinary thing - we still consider of it as a biggest engineering attainment in a story of a world," he explained, according to Economic World.

"It was very exciting and I was very apprehensive because I realized that anything that could go wrong would be fatal for the astronauts," Pellman replied when asked how he felt during the Apollo 11 moon landing, reports The World 247.