Remembering Senator John Herschel Glenn Jr.

On February 20, 1962, John Glen, one of the first seven Mercury astronauts, became the first American to go around the globe. However, service to his country did not start or end. Glenn is a US Marine fighter pilot, a veteran in both wars, and with Ohio 's Senator the second time in 1998 he again became an astronaut. He is also a close friend of the National Air and Space Museum.

Born in Cambridge, Ohio, Glen grew up in a nearby New Concord. In 1942 he volunteered to join the Marine Corps and married Anna Caster before going abroad. They later had two children. From 1944 to 1945, Glenn performed 59 combat missions in the Pacific region. During the Korean War he carried out two battle patrols of jet fighter aircraft and shot down three MiG-15s. In 1956 he became a naval test pilot and in 1959 NASA elected him as an astronaut.

In 1962, on a three-track flight of Friendship 7, Glenn worked well in the face of worrying problems. After retiring from the astronaut, he ran to the political office, served as a senior executive, and was elected Senator in 1974. He retired in early January 1999

At the end of his last semester NASA sent him to the Space Shuttle Mission STS-95 to study the impact of space flight on the elderly's body. From 29th October 1998 to November 7th, 1998, I flew 9 days as Discovery's payload expert. He is the oldest person in history who still fly in space. His honor includes the 2009 Congress gold medal and the 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2004, the museum established the annual John H. Glenn Lecture to acknowledge his contribution to the state and the Smithsonian Institute.

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John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) A former US Marine pilot, an astronaut, and a US Senator, he is the first American to orbit the Earth and the third American universe He was an aviator. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot and later joined NASA's Mercury Plan as a member of NASA's former astronaut team. He circled the earth in the friendly matches 7 in 1962. After retiring from NASA, he entered the political world as a Democrat and represented Ohio State Senator from 1974 to 1999.

John Herschel Glenn Jr. is a person I pay close attention. American pilots, engineers, astronauts and American senators in Ohio reflect the dreams of young people like me (regardless of your color). In 1959, NASA elected the first astronaut. Seven men who will fly in the Mercury Explorer. NASA calls these people "Mercury VII". John Glenn is one of them. Imagine that you are asked to place your butt on a device with very flammable fuel (basically a large firecracker or bomb) and then release it to the earth's orbit. By the way ... No one has ever done this before. It is John Glen and the other six balls.

John Herschel Glenn Jr. was born in Cambridge, Ohio on July 18, 1921, is the only son of a railway company with a pipeline business and former Clara Sproat. A few years later, Glen moved to New Concord, a small town in the southeast Ohio with a population of less than 1000 people. Like most other people, Glenn experienced the depression of a difficult time to plant his son a strict moral code based on the example of God's fear of his son God, I learned that I had a childhood. . He played the trumpet, sang at the church choir, car wash to pay for pocket money, and acted as a watchman. In high school (now named after him), he is an honorary student, typed in soccer, basketball and tennis.