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WASHINGTON: He's still got the Right Stuff. John Glenn, the 76-year-old senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth back in 1962, is going back into space. NASA confirmed Friday that Glenn has been accepted to fly aboard the Space Shuttle this October as a payload specialist."I'm ready for another adventure into the unknown," said Glenn. "It's extraordinary," says Jeffrey Kluger, TIME's space writer and author of Lost Moon. "He's the grand old man of the space program...
...Glenn certainly isn't getting any younger ? he's 15 years the senior of Stori Musgraze, currently the oldest ever cosmonaut. But that's the whole point ? NASA will be able to look at the same astronaut, then and now, to discover whether old age makes any difference in weightlessness...
Back Into Space That's one small step for a senior: NASA is set to put 76-year-old John Glenn in orbit once more...
Currently, the best defense pilots have against such sky skids is an alert by other pilots up ahead who have just traversed a pool of unsteady air. But NASA and private industry may soon have a better way: they are designing a sort of infrared radar that would let planes scan the sky for agitated particles in the air characteristic of CAT. NASA plans to test the device next spring but does not know when it will be operational. In the meantime, the FAA is improving the pilot reporting system by equipping planes with software that measures even mild turbulence...
...NASA?s New Moon Shot NASA is heading back to the Moon. This time, they?re looking...