Editing Astronaut (section)

===Age milestones===

The youngest person to reach space is [[Oliver Daemen]], who was 18 years and 11 months old when he made a [[Sub-orbital spaceflight|suborbital]] spaceflight on [[Blue Origin NS-16]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Blue Origin's Bezos reaches space on 1st passenger flight |url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/jul/20/bezos-riding-own-rocket-companys-1st-flight-people/ |website=Arkansas Online |access-date=20 July 2021 |language=en |date=20 July 2021 |archive-date=20 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720123413/https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/jul/20/bezos-riding-own-rocket-companys-1st-flight-people/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Daemen, who was a commercial passenger aboard the [[New Shepard]], broke the record of Soviet [[cosmonaut]] [[Gherman Titov]], who was 25 years old when he flew [[Vostok 2]]. Titov remains the youngest human to reach [[Geocentric orbit|orbit]]; he rounded the planet 17 times. Titov was also the first person to suffer [[space sickness]] and the first person to sleep in space, twice.<ref name="age">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_2944000/2944638.stm |title=1961: Russian cosmonaut spends day in space |access-date=4 October 2007 |work=BBC News |author=BBC News |date=6 August 2007 |archive-date=3 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171103222148/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_2944000/2944638.stm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="titov">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-22-me-25219-story.html |title=Obituaries—Gherman S. Titov; Cosmonaut Was Second Man to Orbit Earth |access-date=4 February 2015 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=22 September 2000 |author=Robyn Dixon |archive-date=30 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130143903/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-22-me-25219-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The oldest person to reach space is [[William Shatner]], who was 90 years old when he made a suborbital spaceflight on [[Blue Origin NS-18]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.space.com/how-space-tourism-could-affect-older-people|title=William Shatner oldest astronaut at 90 – Here's how space tourism could affect older people|date=October 19, 2021|work=[[Space.com]]|archive-date=17 July 2022|access-date=17 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717035433/https://www.space.com/how-space-tourism-could-affect-older-people|url-status=live}}</ref> The oldest person to reach orbit is [[John Glenn]], one of the [[Mercury 7]], who was 77 when he flew on [[STS-95]].<ref name="glenn">{{cite web |url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/glennbio.html |title=John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (Colonel, USMC, Ret.) NASA Astronaut |access-date=4 October 2007 |publisher=NASA |year=2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014013832/http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/glennbio.html |archive-date=14 October 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref>