John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born 1921) was a military test pilot, astronaut, businessman, and U.S. senator from Ohio. In 1984 he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president. He retired from the Senate in 1999, a year after becoming the...

1921- American Astronaut John Glenn achieved two astronautic milestones at different points in his career. In 1962 he was the first American to orbit around Earth, and 36 years later he was the oldest astronaut to fly on a space mission. The first...

John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth during the Mercury 6 mission on February 20, 1962. In 1998, at the age of seventy-seven, Glenn...

Excerpts from John Glenn: A Memoir Published in 1999 John Herschel Glenn Jr. (1921–) has accomplished more in one lifetime than many people could achieve in three. First a combat pilot in World War II (1939–45) and the Korean War...

Born July 18, 1921 (Cambridge, Ohio) American astronaut, senator, businessman John Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth. He achieved this feat in 1962, at a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a space race. Five...

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Glenn, John, with Nick Taylor. John Glenn: A Memoir. Bantam Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. 1999. 432 pp. 111. $27.00. Long overdue, this book could probably only have been written as an autobiography, and only when John Glenn was ready. It...

THE AGREEMENT reached by representatives of John Glenn with the Federal Election Commission settles one question about presidential politics and raises another. The case was brought by the FEC against Mr. Glenn's 1984 campaign and three Ohio banks that lent it $2 million that...

Gallup polling over the past three decades shows Republican front-runners usually win their party's nomination, but Democrats do not. Some elections:1972-DemocratsFebruary 1971: Edmund Muskie, 26 percent; Edward Kennedy, 25; Hubert Humphrey, 21; John Lindsay and George McGovern, each at 5.McGovern won the nomination and lost...

A rocket payload that flew briefly into space with ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and "Star Trek" actor James Doohan was recovered Friday in the New Mexico mountains.The payload was found in its designated recovery zone 20 days after Farmington, Conn.-based UP Aerospace sent it...