Career record
Flights
2
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
9d 2h
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0
Biography
Colonel John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-95 — Payload Specialist · Success · October 29, 1998
- Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 6 — Pilot · Success · February 20, 1962
Born 1921-07-18 · died 2016-12-08