John Glenn Quotes


We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.


Citations

O'Brien, Miles. "John Glenn on 50 Years Since Historic Flight." PBS NewsHour, Public Broadcasting Service, 20 Feb. 2012.

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John Glenn
John Glenn
  • Born: July 18, 1921
  • Died: December 8, 2016
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Test Pilot

John Herschel Glenn Jr. was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the third American in space, and 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; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77.