JOHNGLENN
John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn, Jr. is a retired United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator. He was a combat aviator in the Marine Corps and member of the Mercury Seven, the elite U.S. military test pilots selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to operate the experimental Mercury spacecraft and become the first American astronauts. On February 20, 1962, he flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and fellow Mercury Seven astrononauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom. In 1965, Glenn retired from the ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: John Glenn
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