GODSPEED JOHN GLENN--Entering New Concord, Ohio from the east, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1998, the only sign about the local hero is one banner spanning Main Street.

PRAYING FOR JOHN GLENN--A visitor enters the Westminster Presbyterian Church, which is the home church of John Glenn, for a prayer vigil, in New Concord, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1998.

LIGHTING A CANDLE FOR GLENN--Sandy Scholl lights a candle to begin a prayer vigil for John Glenn, at the Westminister Presbyterian Church, in New Concord, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 1998.

WATCHING HISTORY UNFOLD--Nine year-old Richi Black, a fourth-grader from Bluffsview Elementary School, in Worthington, Ohio, watches the countdown of the space shuttle Discovery, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 1998.

WE HAVE LIFTOFF--Fourth-graders from Bluffsview Elementary School, in Worthington, Ohio, join in the celebration as they watch the liftoff of the space shuttle Discovery, carrring U.S. Senator John Glenn, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 1998.