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John Glenn Tours Kennedy Space Center

John Glenn inside flight deck of Columbia orbiter at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Ohio Senator John Glenn enjoys a tour of the flight deck in the orbiter Columbia at the Orbiter Processing Facility 3 at Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 21, 1995. Glenn, who made history in 1962 as the first American to orbit the Earth, will fly his second space mission aboard Space Shuttle Discovery.

Ohio Senator John Glenn enjoys a tour of the flight deck in the orbiter Columbia at the Orbiter Processing Facility 3 at Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 21, 1998. Senator Glenn arrived at KSC on Jan. 20 to tour KSC operational areas and to view the launch of STS-89. Glenn, who made history in 1962 as the first American to orbit the Earth, completing three orbits in a five-hour flight aboard Friendship 7, will fly his second space mission aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Glenn is retiring from the Senate and will be a payload specialist aboard STS-95.

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