John Glenn went into space on February 20, 1962, this is not his record. His record is that he was 77 years and 103 days old when he was launched into space on October 29,1999. The mission lasted 11 days.

The longest space flight by a woman was 188 days 4 hours and 14 seconds.

The astronaut that had to look after the most laptop computers was Pedro Duque who had to look after 19 laptops on the Discovery on October 1998.

The fastest speed  on a space shuttle was 24,791 miles per hour. The crew was of the command module of Apollo 10. This record was achieved on May 1969.

The greatest altitude on a space shuttle was 158 miles from the moon's surface.