— In an April 8 story about South Korea's first astronaut, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Yi So-yeon, 29, was the youngest woman ever to fly to space. Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was 26 when she became the world's first woman to fly to space on June 16, 1963.
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