This day in history, October 29, 1998 - John Glenn returns to space! Nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Hershel Glenn, Jr., is launched into space again as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery. At 77 years of age, Glenn was the oldest human ever to travel in space. During the nine-day mission, he served as part of a NASA study on health problems associated with aging.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:06:25 +0000
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