{"id":183,"date":"2008-10-29T22:43:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T02:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=183"},"modified":"2013-02-13T05:56:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T10:56:58","slug":"tenth-anniversary-triumphant-return-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/tenth-anniversary-triumphant-return-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenth Anniversary of a Triumphant Return to Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if anyone else is enjoying my ongoing series of space anniversaries, but I am.<\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago today &#8212; October 29th, 1998 &#8212; the Space Shuttle <em>Discovery<\/em> lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-95. Aboard were seven astronauts, including one from Spain and one from Japan, who would conduct experiments in the SPACEHAB module and deploy and retrieve the &#8220;Spartan&#8221; free-flyer. <\/p>\n<p>The crew were Curtis L. Brown, Steven W. Lindsey, Scott E. Parazynski, Stephen K. Robinson, Pedro Duque (Spain), Chiaki Mukai (Japan), and &#8212; making the triumphant return mentioned in the title &#8212; John H. Glenn. Thirty-six years, eight months and nine days after becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator Glenn returned to space.<\/p>\n<p>The mission also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Was the first Space Shuttle launch watched by a U. S. President (President Clinton)<\/li>\n<li>Included the first astronaut from Spain to fly in space<\/li>\n<li>Included the first Japanese astronaut to fly twice into space<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nThe mission lasted a few hours shy of nine days, making it a much longer stay in space than the first time for Senator Glenn. And longer than I&#8217;m likely ever to stay in space, despite my most fervent wishes. 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