Old spaceman

NASA astronaut Story Musgrave will become the oldest person in space in November, at the age of 61, as a mission specialist on the STS80/Columbia mission. He will also be making his sixth Shuttle flight since 1983, equalling the space-flight records by John Young between 1965 and 1983.

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