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Oct 10, 2023 · Kevin Wilcox. ‘The John Glenn factor’ draws large crowds to launch of STS-95. Twenty-five years ago this month, in late October 1998, the area around Kennedy Space Center (KSC) came alive with a type of carnival atmosphere the Space Coast hadn’t seen in a quarter of a century, when NASA was launching the final Apollo missions to the Moon.
Oct 29, 2018 · But Glenn’s return to space was distinctive because it came 36 years after his historic 1962 flight on the Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft, when he became the first American in orbit. When John Glenn boarded the shuttle orbiter Discovery, now in the Museum’s collection and displayed at our Udvar-Hazy Center, he was 77 years old—the oldest ...
Oct 29, 1998 · 10/29/2016 01:06 AM EDT. On this day in 1998, nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) returned to space at the age of 77...
Twenty years ago this month and 36 years after that first flight, U.S. senator John Glenn once again donned a spacesuit and soared into orbit. As before, on October 29, 1998, Americans were...
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Feb 24, 2013 · An episode airing on March 12, 1967 offered viewers a look at the home of the 21st century, filled with robot servants, 3D television, inflatable furniture and molded on-demand dishes. In the...
