John Glenn

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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.

Born in

Cambridge

Education

Muskingum University; United States Naval Test Pilot School

Awards

Presidential Medal of Freedom; Theodore Roosevelt Award; Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation; Congressional Space Medal of Honor; International Space Hall of Fame; and 13 more

From Wikidata.

• Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-95Payload Specialist · Success · with Chiaki Mukai, Curtis Brown, Pedro Duque, Scott E. Parazynski, Stephen Robinson, Steven LindseyOctober 29, 1998
• Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 6Pilot · SuccessFebruary 20, 1962