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...

John Glenn Born July 18, 1921, New Concord, Ohio John Glenn’s spaceflight around Earth made him a hero. At the time of Glenn’s flight, space was a new battleground in the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviet...

American astronaut and senator John H. Glenn Jr. was the first American to orbit the earth. In the wake of this 1962 feat, Glenn became a national hero on the order of Trans-Atlantic aviator Charles A. Lindbergh—a status that helped carry him to...

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...

(born , July 18, 1921, Cambridge, Ohio, U.S.) U.S. astronaut and senator. He flew 59 missions as a Marine Corps pilot in World War II and 90 during the Korean War. The oldest of the seven astronauts selected in 1959 for the Mercury project's...

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