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John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, 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. [3]
Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, retired astronaut, and United States Navy captain serving as the senior United States senator from Arizona, since 2020. He is a member of the Democratic Party .
John Glenn, one of the Mercury Seven selected in 1959 by NASA who became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth when he flew the Mercury-Atlas 6 named Friendship 7 for three Earth orbits on February 20, 1962, was the first astronaut elected to Congress when he won a Senate seat in 1974. He is the longest-serving American astronaut ...
A geologist and astronaut, he became the 12th out of 12 men to set foot on the moon, serving as lunar module pilot aboard the Apollo 17 mission in December of 1972.
Kelly, who was a U.S. Navy attack pilot before spending a decade as a NASA Space Shuttle pilot, earned more than $1.7 million in speaking fees over the two years before he was elected to the U.S ...
Former U.S. astronaut and Senator John Glenn died on Thursday at age 95 at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus.
1.47 Virginia. 1.48 Washington. 1.49 West ... first graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to become an astronaut — STS ... U.S. Senator, and became the ...
Glenn's first mission to space was Gemini 8. In 1969, he was named commander of the Apollo 11 mission, which led to his famous first steps on the moon at the age of 38.