John Glenn Signed STS-95 FDF Flight Plan

Official stapled NASA final Flight Data File ‘Flight Plan’ (JSC-48000-95) for the STS-95 mission, issued for “(FRR Trajectory),” dated September 25, 1998, signed on the front cover in black felt tip, “Best regards – John Glenn, 3-2-03.” Prepared by the Mission Operations Directorate (Operations Division), the manual, approximately 170 pages, 8.5 x 11, includes the following sections: Introduction, Overview Timeline, Summary Timeline, Detailed Timeline, STS-95 DAP Table, Attitude Timeline, Flight Plan Notes, and DAP Book Configuration. In fine condition.

STS-95, launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on October 29, 1998, is best known for carrying John Glenn, who returned to space 36 years after becoming the first American to orbit Earth on Mercury-Atlas 6. At age 77, Glenn served as a payload specialist, participating in medical and aging-related experiments designed to compare the effects of spaceflight on older astronauts with earlier data from his 1962 mission.