<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery" id="mwARs" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Space Shuttle Discovery">Space Shuttle <i id="mwARw">Discovery</i></a> blasts off on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-95" id="mwAR0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="STS-95">STS-95</a> with 77-year-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn" id="mwAR4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Glenn">John Glenn</a> on board, making him the oldest person to go into space at that time.<sup about="#mwt73" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_29#cite_note-13" id="mwAR8" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwASA">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt70" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFWilford2016">Wilford, John Noble (8 December 2016). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/john-glenn-dies.html" id="mwB_4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"John Glenn, American Hero of the Space Age, Dies at 95"</a>. <i id="mwB_8">The New York Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCAA">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCAE">12 February</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt70" class="Z3988" id="mwCAI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=John+Glenn%2C+American+Hero+of+the+Space+Age%2C+Dies+at+95&amp;rft.date=2016-12-08&amp;rft.aulast=Wilford&amp;rft.aufirst=John+Noble&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F12%2F08%2Fus%2Fjohn-glenn-dies.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AOctober+29"></span></span>