Space station receives oldest female astronaut, bit of Mars

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Source: Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The International Space Station gained three new residents Saturday, including the oldest and most experienced woman to orbit the world.

A bit of Mars also arrived, courtesy of a Frenchman who brought along a small piece of a Mars meteorite.

Launched Thursday from Kazakhstan, the Russian Soyuz capsule docked at the 250-mile-high outpost just an hour or two before NASA launched a weather satellite from Florida. The Soyuz delivered NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy. They joined three men already on board, one American and two Russians.

This is the third space station mission for Whitson, who at 56 is older than each of her crewmates.

Read more: By MARCIA DUNN Nov. 19, 2016 9:37 PM EST

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The headline is the story here. Is AP suggesting a similarity between a middle-aged woman and a 2,000,000,000-year old piece of rock???

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Did a quick search of her bio

She was an Iowa chicken farmer. She's 2 years older than me but all I can say is more power to her! One wonders how much micro-gravity could relieve my arthritis.

[Plucketeer]

2. Interesting that the pursuit of science goes forward

in spite of the bulk of humanity trying to do itself in. I'd volunteer for a one-way trip to Mars if I had any skills to offer.