Comments on: Daily Question # 157

By: Kamal Rathi

Kamal Rathi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:29:05 +0000

Jake Garn, Bill Nelson followed by John Glenn were the sitting Senators of the US Congress to fly in space

By: anil raghavan

anil raghavan — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:07:59 +0000

john glenn

By: Rithwik K

Rithwik K — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:02:36 +0000

“Utah Senator Jake Garn(A) is the first sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space. He was the payload specialist onboard Discovery’s STS-51-D mission in 1985. The second seated politician to fly in space is then Florida Representative (now Senator) Bill Nelson(B), who flew in 1986 onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.In 1998, Discovery carried astronaut (and senator) John Glenn, who was 77 at the time, back in space, giving him the record of oldest person to go into space. Incidentally, this also made him the third seated politician to fly in space.”

By: Mithran

Mithran — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:39:09 +0000

1.Jake Garn..the first sitting senator in US to be in space…

2.Bill Nelson

3.John Glenn..

By: Deepu

Deepu — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:35:27 +0000

John Glenn.

Sitting members of the Senate in Space.

By: Manjith

Manjith — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:43:00 +0000

Barack Obama.
(I havent the slightest clue who the above gentlemen are , but BO sounds a good bet!..call it the audacity of hope, if u will )

By: Navpreet Singh

Navpreet Singh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:18:14 +0000

A – Senator Edwin Jacob “Jake” Garn
B – Senator Clarence William “Bill” Nelson

The Answer is John Herschel Glenn Jr.
He was the third sitting Member of Congress as well as the oldest person in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998.

Senator Jake Garn was the first sitting US Member of Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery as a Payload Specialist.

Senator Bill Nelson was the second – he flew on the space shuttle Columbia as Payload Specialist.

By: Raouf

Raouf — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:14:20 +0000

A likely answer would have been Barrack Obama as he is the third sitting senator to be elected president. But the second was JFK, and from no angle does the second guy look like him.