per hour, about 32 times the speed of sound and 0.0037% of the speed of light). The record was set 26 May 1969. In 2021, the Parker Solar Probe at 587,000 km/h became the fastest moving spacecraft, at about 1/1850 (or 0.05%) the speed of light. Age records Earliest-born to reach space Suborbital flight Man - Joe Walker (born 20 February 1921), on X-15 Flight 90 on 19 July 1963 (about 12 minutes.) Woman - Wally Funk (born 1 February 1939), on Blue Origin NS-16, on 20 July 2021 (about 10 minutes.) Orbital spaceflight Man – Georgy Beregovoy (born 15 April 1921), on Soyuz 3 on 26 October 1968 (81 orbits in about 4 days.) Woman – Valentina Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937), on Vostok 6 on 16–19 June 1963 (48 orbits, about 3 days.) Youngest Suborbital flight Man - Oliver Daemen (aged 18 years), on Blue Origin NS-16, on 20 July 2021 (about 10 minutes.) Woman - Katya Echazarreta (aged 26 years), on Blue Origin NS-21, on 4 June 2022 (about 10 minutes.) Orbital spaceflight Man – Gherman Titov (aged 25 years), on Vostok 2 on 6 August 1961 (17.5 orbits, about 1 day.) Woman – Valentina Tereshkova (aged 26 years), on Vostok 6 on 16–19 June 1963 (48 orbits, about 3 days.) Oldest Suborbital flight Man - William Shatner (aged 90), on Blue Origin NS-18, on 13 October 2021 (about 10 minutes.) Woman - Wally Funk (aged 82), on Blue Origin NS-16, on 20 July 2021 (about 10 minutes.) Orbital spaceflight Man – John Glenn (aged 77), on STS-95 on 29 October 1998 (about 9 days, 20 hours.) Woman – Peggy Whitson (aged 56), on Soyuz MS-03 on 17 November 2016 (about 289 days.) She turned 57 on 9 February 2017, while still in space. Spacewalk records Most spacewalks (number and duration) Both of these are the record for the largest total number of spacewalks by a male and a female, and the most cumulative time spent on spacewalks by a male and a female. Man – Anatoly Solovyev, 16 spacewalks for a total time of 82 hours, 21 minutes. Woman – Peggy Whitson, 10 spacewalks for a total time of 60 hours, 21 minutes. Most spacewalks during a single mission 7: Anatoly Solovyev, during Expedition 24 on the Soviet/Russian space station Mir, in 1997–98. (Two were internal "spacewalks" inside a depressurized module.) 7: Andrew Morgan, during his