Shuttle Discovery carries Sen. Glenn back to orbit

NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery boosted Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) back to orbit yesterday on a nine-day mission crammed with experiments on subjects ranging from how the oldest space traveler's body handles free-fall to the performance of an automatic docking system for the Shuttle's replacement...

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