The oldest person to travel in space is John Glenn, 77, who flew on shuttle Discovery’s STS-95 mission in 1998.

Story Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown on all five shuttles.

Astronauts Jerry Ross and Franklin Chang-Diaz have flown the most shuttle missions with seven each.

355 individual fliers have flown on NASA’s space shuttles.

NASA’s space shuttles have traveled 537,114,016, making 20,952 orbits around the Earth.

For Fiscal Year 2010, the average cost to prepare and launch a shuttle mission was approximately $775 million.

The Johnson Space Center was established in 1963 as the Manned Spacecraft Center.