PEGGY WHITSON THE LONGEST WOMAN TO STAY IN SPACE INSPIRING facts She holds so many records, for being the oldest woman aged 57: more days in space then any American astronaut of either gender ; more days in space then any other female in the world. The first woman to command the International space station; and most space walks of any female astronaut . She was a biochemist So she sent back as much data as she could She always requested more missions one of the reasons Whiston racked up so many space time. Is because as soon as she landed down from one mission, she requests another one. She was an accomplished space chef with her culinary experiments using freeze dried tortillas. The only 2 things she missed was non freeze dried pizzas and her husband who works on the ground at the Jonson space centre. Peggy Annette Whitson spent 665 days 22 SPACE hours 22 minutes and 36 seconds her selection was in 1996:NASA group . In total TIME EVAs 10 total EVA time 60 hours 21 minutes. Missions STS-111/STS-113 {EXPIDTION 5} This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA PEGGY WHITSON BORN : Peggy Annette Whitson {9th February 1960} she is an American biochemistry researcher, retired NASA astronaut, and former chief astronaut. Her first space mission was in 2002, with an extended stay aboard the International space station as a member of expedition 5.Her second mission launched October 10,2007, as the first female commander of the ISS with expedition 16. she was on her third long-duration in space flight and was the commander of the International space station for expedition 51,before handing over to Foydor Yurchikhin on June 1st , 2017.In June 2017 , Whitson broke the record for the longest single space flight by a woman which had previously been held by Samantha Cristoforetti at 199 days, 16 hours. Whitson spent 289 days in orbit before returning aboard SYOUZ MS-04. The record was broken by Christina Koch, whose single space flight lasted 328 days.Whitson accured a total of 665 days in space over the course of her career. PICTURES END THANKS FOR READING. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC.