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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Senator and first-American-to-orbit-Earth John Glenn once again gained national attention last week--this time for his role as a geriatric guinea pig aboard the space shuttle Discovery--Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), was busy investigating Glenn's sleep patterns...

Author: By Tiffany C. Bloomfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepless in SPACE | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

...Space travel and aging have similar effects on sleep, and the research data we gather from Senator Glenn's participation might provide insight into age-related changes in sleep as well," said Czeisler at a press conference prior to the shuttle's launch...

Author: By Tiffany C. Bloomfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepless in SPACE | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

...NASA has pointed out, there were 17 million people aged 65 years or older in the U.S. in 1963, just one year after Glenn made his historic flight. Today, there are twice as many...

Author: By Tiffany C. Bloomfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sleepless in SPACE | 11/10/1998 | See Source »

...that John Glenn is safely back on terra firma, he and the rest of the Discovery crew are doing the best they can to maintain America?s renewed interest in the space program. "I wish that every flight received this same kind of attention," the 77-year-old senator and payload specialist told a press conference Sunday. His commander, Curtis Brown Jr., also used the occasion to give some desperate plugs to upcoming NASA missions -? specifically a more unpopular and expensive one. Discovery?s landing, Brown urged, should be seen as "the first chapter in a new adventure: the International...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senator Who Fell to Earth | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...chance of that. Right now, it?s still all Glenn, all the time down in Houston. More than a thousand residents packed an airport hangar to cheer the two-time astronaut?s return Saturday; on Wednesday, the city will throw a parade in his honor. And you?d be hard-pressed to find a reporter with space stations on his mind at the Discovery press conference. How did Senator Glenn feel? "Ninety-five or 98 percent back to normal," he said. Does he have a message for the elder generation? "Don?t sit on a couch someplace, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senator Who Fell to Earth | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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