Space Shuttle Discovery 1998 launch with John Glenn

Space Shuttle Discovery 1998 launch with John Glenn, narration by Peter Jennings

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[VideoLonghorn]

I was 29 years old when this happenned.  You guys make me feel old, which I am.

[VideoLonghorn]

thanks RJY, you seem like you know a lot about spaceflight. That is cool .

[VideoLonghorn]

Peter was just repeating what Mission central just said

[bombarderoazul]

Yugi Gagarin died in an airplane accident in 1968. Chances are that if he were still alive he could have gone back to space.

[Julius121081]

Lisa Malone is the female you hear in this video counting down the seconds.

[GGE47]

I was 14 when Glenn made his first flight.We got vey little done that day in school..We watched in the high school auditorium or listened to the radio on the intercom.I was luckey enough to see it take off in a front row seat and skipped 2nd period because I just couldn't leave it.it didn't matter because the teacher never took the roll.I remember seeing this one but I can't remember if I was off or if it was a weekend.We had 7 Mercury astronauts and then they were sending 7 up at one time.

[A86]

I was about 12 years old when I saw this on TV and then later on the Internet (back when we had 56K dialup XD). Words can't describe how excited I was to see a hero of mine return to the heavens! 36 years was far too long for him to wait to return to space, especially since Mr. Glenn was kind of robbed in a way during his flight in 1962. He only got to complete 3 orbits instead of "at least 7" like he was promised. I'm glad he got far more time in a much roomier spacecraft this time around.

[A86]

@bombarderoazul - And I'd argue that if Sergei Korolev had lived at least a few years longer Yuri Gagarin would have probably been either the first man on the Moon or at least the first Soviet citizen to walk on the Moon a year or so after Armstrong (the time difference depending on how long it would take the Soviets to get the N-1 rocket's engines to work properly with Korolev's help).

[jm1922]

3rd grade, fall 1998, our entire school watch this liftoff.....seems like yesterday

[jetfreak4]

@jetfreak4 Never mind, made a mistake...he said 1 minute 50 seconds to 2 minutes....that's a little better. The separation of the SRBs took place at about 2 minutes and one second into the flight.

[jetfreak4]

Peter Jennings is off on his readings. He calls T+48 seconds right around the time when it's been exactly one minute after Discovery has lifted off. He also says the boosters separate at 1 minutes 54 seconds...they actually separated around 2 minutes and 4 seconds. In any case, I was watching this launch when it took place. Never trust the media to give you the numbers.

[rthefish]

Where can I get the full broadcast?. Interested to hear more of the former Astronauts comment. I remember, at age 9, the entire school being crammed into the sports hall to watch the first moon walk on a Black and White TV (Melbourne, Australia). Magic days. These men are heros, to be sure.

[altfactor]

@101southsideboy Wasn't Gagarin in training for Soyuz 2??

[altfactor]

I went to the "little boy's room", thinking that there would be a hold in the countdown.

My then girlfriend yelled "They're not stopping the countdown (at T-minus 31 seconds)!".

I got back to the TV in time for T-Minus 10 seconds.

[101southsideboy]

@bombarderoazul Gagarin was actually in training for a 2nd flight when the crash accured