U.S.Senator and American astronaut John Glenn's return trip to outer space Thursday can serve as a reminder to us all.That reminder is that no matter how old we get, we can still reach the stars. Glenn is 77 and returned to outer space Thursday 36 years after his first trip. Glenn last went into space before Nixon's resignation, before the end of the Vietnam War and before many high school students and college students today were born. In our trendy, pop-culture, fast food, channel-surfing times, we sometimes forget that we are all aging.There is no fountain of youth where we can remain forever young, even though cosmetic companies would have you believe otherwise.The phrase, "It won't happen to me!" doesn't apply here. The human body ages, for all people.I'll get old, you'll get old, and that one person you had a crush on back in high school will get old.It's the way it works.
DAVID SLONE, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016