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At 77, John Glenn, who became the first American to orbit Earth, returned on Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998 as the oldest person to enter Earth orbit

Thirty-six years after his first historic flight, John Glenn returned to space at 77 aboard Discovery.
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The engine that put John Glenn back in orbit is being bolted onto a Moon rocket

One of the four RS-25 engines now being bolted into the core stage of NASA’s next moon rocket is not new hardware at all. Engine 2048 last flew in 1998, on the space shuttle mission that carried ...