Record holder astronaut Peggy Whitson has blasted off into space for her third mission to the International Space Station, ISS and hopes to break some more records while she is there. <br/><br/>The veteran NASA astronaut is the first woman to have commanded the ISS and already holds the record for the longest time spent in space by a woman. <br/>This time, turning 57 while on mission, she is the oldest woman in space. She blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today. Whitson first went into space in 2002 and became the first woman to command the ISS in 2007. <br/><br/>She will break records again when she takes charge of the orbiting lab for a second time in February. She is expected to reach at the ISS tomorrow, joining an American and two Russians already aboard. They will carry out a range of scientific investigations until May 2017.