STS-95

STS-95 was a Space Shuttle Discovery research mission launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39B on October 29, 1998. Curtis Brown commanded the seven-person crew with Steven Lindsey as pilot, NASA mission specialists Scott Parazynski and Stephen Robinson, ESA mission specialist Pedro Duque, and payload specialists Chiaki Mukai and John Glenn. The flight carried SPACEHAB research, science payloads, the Hubble Orbital Systems Test platform, PANSAT, and investigations connected with aging, microgravity, and human physiology. It became especially visible because Glenn returned to orbit more than three decades after Friendship 7, while the mission also represented European and Japanese human-spaceflight participation through Duque and Mukai. Discovery landed at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility on November 7, 1998.