Breaking The Record Astronaut: Woman Dominating Space. Find Out Why?
The dream becoming an astronaut is boundless of age as Peggy Whitson at 56 will become the oldest female astronaut not just in the United States but of the entire world. On the record, at age 77 in the year 1998. John Glenn is still the oldest man who traveled space.
Huffington Post said this new record of a woman on space will mark another end of bad insight to feminism. "I think it gets easier as you get older," Whitson said. "You know what to worry about and what not to worry about. You prioritize your effort. It's the 'work smarter, not harder' that with understanding is much easier to do."
Whitson was also a commander of the Space Station and the first and only woman to head NASA astronaut corps in 2007. This week's launching on 3:20 EST on Thursday will be the third mission Whitson will have. The first she had been in 2002 was also a success.
On NBC News, there is a picture of Pam Melroy who commanded Space Shuttle Discovery or known as STS-120, on Oct. 27, 2007, when Whitson was in command with the Space station "Unity node of the International Space Station". It means that in history, two women were in charged on two spacecraft.
In Baikonur Cosmodrom, Kazakhstan Whitmore will have her third launch aboard Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft. This time, she will take command in a mission with two space stations. The last woman who had the record being the oldest in space at 55 named Barbara Morgan. This was the 2007 mission that went to space.
She will be aboard with astronauts from Russian Space Agency Oleg Novitskiy, European Space Agency Thomas Pesquet. She will also be with Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA, and both Sergey Rhyzhkov and Andrey Borisenko that are cosmonauts. Their mission will include 250 experiments, said on NASA.
