John Glenn at Discovery ticker-tape parade photograph

Top banner reads: "NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT BAND" Bottom banner reads: "THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND MAYOR RUDOLPH W. GUILIANI CONGRATULATE AMERICA'S HEROES SENATOR JOHN H. GLENN AND THE CREW OF THE SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY" U.S. Senator and astronaut John Glenn accepts a commemorative award in a small black box during the ticker-tape parade on November 16, 1998, celebrating the successful return of the Discovery space flight mission STS-95. Astronauts Steven Lindsey and Curtis L. Brown Jr. are seated left. The John and Annie Glenn collection is comprised of photographs, slides, books and ephemera documenting the career of John Glenn as an astronaut and U.S. Senator. The collection also documents his life with his wife Annie Glenn née Castor, family and friends, such as Robert and Ethel Kennedy and fellow astronauts