STS-95 Payload Specialist John H. Glenn Jr. (right), senator from Ohio, embraces his son, David, after landing at Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a T-38 jet on October 26, 1998. Barely visible behind them is Glenn's daughter, Lyn. Glenn and other crewmembers flew into KSC to make final preparations for launch. Targeted for liftoff at 2 p.m. on Oct. 29, the STS-95 mission includes research payloads such as the Spartan solar-observing deployable spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, the International Extreme Ultraviolet Hitchhiker, as well as the SPACEHAB single module with experiments on space flight and the aging process. The mission is expected to last 8 days, 21 hours and 49 minutes, and return to KSC on Nov. 7, 1998. .Credit: NASA via CNP
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