Aerospace Technology Innovation, Volume 6, Number 5, September/October 1998
NASA Office of Aero-Space Technology, 1998. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 19. [1] pages. Illustrations. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Foreedge seal was broken for cataloging purposes. Mailing information and ink notation on back cover. John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States. This is one of the least known and thus rarest of John Glenn memorabilia. STS-95 was a Space Shuttle mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on 29 October 1998, using the orbiter Discovery. It was the 25th flight of Discovery and the 92nd mission flown since the start of the Space Shuttle program in April 1981. It was a highly publicized mission due to former Project Mercury astronaut and United States Senator John H. Glenn, Jr.'s return to space for his second space flight. At age 77, Glenn became the oldest person, to date, to go into space. This mission is also noted for inaugurating ATSC HDTV broadcasting in the U.S., with live coast-to-coast coverage of the launch. In another first, Pedro Duque became the first Spaniard in space. The crew of STS-95 was awarded the Space Foundation's Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award in 1999. The award is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: John Glenn, STS-95, NASA, Technology Transfer, Advanced Technologies, Aerospace Technology, Space Shuttle, Shuttle Tiles, Smart Software, Wind Tunnel, Cryostat, Industry Partner, Astronaut. Docking
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