Pavel Vinogradov, At 59, Sets New Record As Oldest Spacewalker 32
Florida today reports that cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov on Friday became the oldest person to have completed a spacewalk. From the article: "Working outside the Russian side of the international outpost, Vinogradov and cosmonaut Roman Romanenko put in six hours and 38 minutes of high-flying maintenance work. They set up a plasma physics experiment and retrieved a package that exposed advanced spacecraft materials to the deleterious space environment. They also replaced a reflector that is part of an autonomous rendezvous and docking system that will guide a robotic European space freighter to the station in early June." NASASpaceFlight.com has more details on the spacewalk, as well as the note that Vinogradov edges out "Story Musgrave, who was 58 when he flew the Hubble SM-1 mission in 1993."
Buzz rules! (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm proud that he hit the idiot with the snappiest argument there is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU [youtube.com]
All the Buzz Aldrin there is!