Space shuttle Discovery (STS-95) lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral carrying U.S. Senator John H. Glenn on his second mission to space on this date. Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962 during the Freedom 7 mission, and the STS-95 mission made him the oldest person to travel to space at the age of 77. The flight would help scientist better understands the effects of spaceflight on someone at that age, and compare the effects on the same individual 37 years between spaceflights. The mission lasted 8 days and Glenn and the crew of STS-95 landed safely at Kennedy Space Center on November 7^th.  Aside from Glenn’s space career, he was also a U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1974-1999.