- Former aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States senator
| Real name: | John Herschel Glenn, Jr. | | Born: | 18 July 1921 Comment | | When did John Glenn die? / Died | 08 December 2016 | | How many years did John Glenn live? / Lived | 95 years | | Where was John Glenn born? | Cambridge, Ohio, US | | Where did John Glenn die? / Deathplace | Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, US | | Zodiac sign: | Cancer |
John Glenn Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| | How much is John Glenn worth? | Under review
| | Nationality: | American | | Hair color: | Bald / White | | Eyes color: | Blue |
Who was John Glenn? / Facts
- He was one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the Project Mercury spacecraft
- On February 20, 1962, Glenn 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 the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom
- Glenn is the earliest-born American to go to orbit, and the second earliest-born man overall after Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy
- Glenn received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and was inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990
- With the death of Scott Carpenter on October 10, 2013, Glenn became the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven
- Glenn resigned from NASA on January 16, 1964, and the next day announced plans to run for a US Senate seat from Ohio; however, a bathroom fall which resulted in a concussion caused him to withdraw from the race in March
- He retired from the Marine Corps on January 1, 1965
- A member of the Democratic Party, he finally won election to the Senate in 1974 and served through January 3, 1999
- With the death of Edward Brooke on January 3, 2015, Glenn became the oldest living former United States Senator
- On October 29, 1998, while still a sitting senator, he became the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs, when at age 77, he flew as a Payload Specialist on Discovery mission STS-95
- He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012
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Last update: 07 April 2017
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