The Astronaut Who Was Left Stranded in Space

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The youngest person to ever fly in a rocket ship was Gherman Titov, who was just 25 years old at the time. The oldest person to fly was John Glenn. He was 77 when he broke that record.

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The crew for the Apollo 13 moon mission was the farthest astronauts have ever been from the earth. It was 401,056 km which is about 249,205 miles. Good thing they didn’t get lost out there!

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