STS-95, flown by Space Shuttle Discovery, returned Mercury astronaut John Glenn to orbit at age 77, making him the oldest person to fly in space. The nine-day mission also deployed the Spartan solar-observation satellite and ran aging-related research.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 22.2 T
- Flight
- 92nd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 29 October 1998, 19:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- International designator
- 1998-064
- Launches in 1998
- 69th of 82
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