Oldest astronaut - female

According to Official Guinness Records,

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson (USA, b 9 February 1960) became the oldest woman in space at the age of 56 years 282 days. She was aboard a Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft that launched to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2:20 a.m. local time on Friday, 18 November 2016 – 14:20 CST time on Thursday, 17 November in her native Iowa, USA – and went into orbit eight minutes later. The spacecraft was also carrying Expedition 50/51's Thomas Pesquet (France) and Oleg Novitskiy (Russia). Whitson, Pesquet and Novitskiy will dock with the ISS after a two-day journey. They will join Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough (USA) and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko.

For a complete list of 2016 records, please visit 2016 Guinness Records in Kazakhstan.

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