Flight record
2 flights on padside's record, flying from 1962 to 1998.
2Flights
9d 2hTime in space
Not recordedEVA time
0Spacewalks
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
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.
Flights
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-95October 29, 1998
- Atlas LV-3B | Mercury-Atlas 6February 20, 1962
Born 1921-07-18 · died 2016-12-08