
John Glenn was an American Marine corp, Astronaut, Test Pilot and senator. He was born on July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio. He fought in the second world war and the Korean war. He was one of the seven astronauts who were selected to be a part of the mercury mission in which US send their first astronauts to space. He was the first American to orbit the earth. He was in space for 4 hours and 55 minutes.He was inducted in the Astronaut hall of fame in 1990. He has gone to space two times in the mercury mission and STS-95 which was a space shuttle program. He was 77 year old when he went for the STS-95 mission becoming the oldest man to go to space. He was in space for 8 days and for a total of 9 days including both the mercury and STS-95 mission. After the death of Scott Carpenter he became the only man from the mercury mission to be alive at the age of 92
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