{"id":7984,"date":"2026-10-29T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:45:38","slug":"john-glenn-in-1998-traveled-on-the-space-shuttle-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7984","title":{"rendered":"John Glenn in 1998 Traveled on the Space Shuttle Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8222\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8222\" class=\" wp-image-8222\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/John-Glenn.jpg\" alt=\"John Glenn\" width=\"134\" height=\"168\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Glenn in 1998<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>John Glenn in 1998 traveled on the space shuttle <em>Discovery<\/em><\/strong>. At 77 years old, he was the oldest person to travel in space at that time. The shuttle returned to earth on November 7, 1998. He had been one of the original seven astronauts and had orbited the earth in 1962. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/audience\/forstudents\/k-4\/stories\/nasa-knows\/who-is-john-glenn-k4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Glenn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Glenn in 1998 traveled on the space shuttle Discovery. At 77 years old, he was the oldest person to travel in space at that time. The shuttle returned to earth on November 7, 1998. He had been one of the original seven astronauts and had orbited the earth in 1962. Children could learn more <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7984' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5891,2064,1039,760,42,5979],"class_list":["post-7984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5891","tag-astronaut","tag-discovery","tag-john-glenn","tag-november-7","tag-october-29","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23850,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions\/23850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}