On 29 October 1998, John Glenn became the oldest person to enter space as STS95/Space Shuttle Discovery hosted him as a payload specialist.
You can read our original coverage here from the archives. A few months earlier we pondered whether his trip was for scientific purposes of just a "romantic ego trip". What did we reckon? Find out here.
You can read our original coverage here from the archives. A few months earlier we pondered whether his trip was for scientific purposes of just a "romantic ego trip". What did we reckon? Find out here.

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