Former Senator John H. Glenn, Jr., the first US astronaut to orbit Earth (1962), returns to space in the space shuttle Discovery to test the effects of microgravity on the elderly. He is 76, the oldest person to enter space.
Some lawmakers in the Senate are advocating for a more bipartisan approach to paying for the Pentagon’s $185 billion Golden Dome missile defense project, arguing that the effort’s goal of bolstering homeland defenses has support across ideological lines but the process for funding it has been politically charged—leaving the program’s…