In honor of native Ohioan and former senator John Glenn's birthday on July 18th, we share this video of his historic second flight into space. Glenn passed away in 2016 at age 95, but his legacy lives on. Nearly 25 years ago John Glenn became the oldest human to travel into outer space as NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery embarked on Shuttle Mission STS-95. Even though William Shatner made an exciting trip to the edge of space at age 90, that wasn't outer space. And while it's still a great accomplishment, Glenn actually spent days in space in orbit while Shatner spent minutes on the edge of space. This video is from a rebroadcast on NASA TV in 2000 of highlights of that shuttle mission.
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