STS-95 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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00:02:03 1 Crew
00:02:12 1.1 Crew seating arrangements
00:02:21 2 Mission highlights
00:02:52 2.1 Spacehab
00:03:51 2.2 Spartan
00:05:15 2.3 HOST
00:06:35 2.4 IEH
00:07:55 2.5 Medical experiments on Glenn
00:09:22 2.6 Trivia
00:10:26 3 Crew award
00:10:54 4 Anomalies
00:11:43 5 Inaugural HDTV broadcast
00:12:33 6 Wake-up calls
00:13:02 7 Mission insignia
00:14:14 8 See also



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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 mission's objectives involved investigating life-sciences experiments, using the SpaceHab module to perform these experiments on Senator Glenn. Scientific objectives on this mission were not limited to furthering an understanding of the human body, but also to increase astronomical understanding with regards to the Sun, and how it affects life on Earth. The Spartan 201 spacecraft was released by the crew, flying free from the Shuttle, studying the acceleration of the solar wind that originates in the sun's solar corona. The mission lasted just under ten days, with Discovery completing its voyage by landing at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility.
The launch was rare in that the official launch weather forecast provided by the 45th Weather Squadron was 100 percent for favorable weather for launch as well as the Shuttle Landing Facility.Bill Clinton became the second incumbent U.S. President to witness a rocket launch, joined by his wife Hillary on the roof of the Vehicle Assembly Building; and the only one to attend a Shuttle launch (President Richard Nixon witnessed the launch of Apollo 12).