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"Zero-G, and I feel fine!"
...Remembering Former Senator / Astronaut John Glenn (18, July 1921 - 8, December 2016)...One of the "Mercury Seven" original NASA Astronauts, and the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962, in the Mercury Spacecraft named "Friendship 7"...
He would later return to spaceflight 36 years later on October 29, 1998, as part of the Space Shuttle "Discovery" STS-95 mission at 77, the oldest person in space...