john glenn

     

Later a U.S. senator, in 1962 he made a famous 75,000-mile trip

Trivia about john glenn

  • He made the cover of Life magazine 3 times in February & March of 1962, & again in October 1998
  • In October 1998 this man went into space as the oldest U.S. astronaut ever
  • In February 1962 he said, "The sunset was beautiful. It went down very rapidly"
  • In 1962 the people of Perth, Australia saluted this American by turning their lights on & off at the same time
  • Encouraged by RFK to seek public office, he left the Marines as a colonel in 1965 & won a Senate seat 9 years later
  • He ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 1964 & 1970 before winning one in 1974
  • While this man was preparing for space, George Voinovich & Mary Boyle were campaigning for his Senate seat
  • This first American to orbit the Earth shot down 3 MIGs during the Korean War
  • In 1962 he went into space; in 1975, he went into the Senate
  • In October 1989 someone socked this Ohio senator in the jaw during a TV interview
  • At 37, this Ohioan was the oldest of the 7 astronauts chosen for the Mercury flights
  • He became the oldest man ever to fly in space when he returned there in October 1998 at the age of 77
  • This first American in Earth orbit was given the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal in 1962
  • Of the 7 original Mercury astronauts, he was the only member of the U.S. Marine Corps
  • He said of the Mercury capsule that carried him into orbit in Feb. 1962, "You don't get into it, you put it on"
  • His historic 1962 orbital flight was marked by drama over a possibly loose heat shield
  • During his 4 hour & 55 minute flight into space in 1962, he experienced 3 sunrises & sunsets
  • He was 77 when he returned to space in '98; he talks to us now via satellite from Ohio
  • NYC's biggest ticker-tape parade occurred March 1, 1962 when over 3,000 tons were dumped on this astronaut
  • 1976:Ohio senator
  • He's the first astronaut later elected U.S. senator
  • This U.S. Senator is chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
  • He had the right stuff to be the first Ohioan elected to the U.S. senate for 4 consecutive terms
  • In 1957 this future astronaut set a speed record flying from L.A. to NYC in 3 hrs., 23 min., 8.4 sec.
  • In 1997, as he declined to seek a fifth term as Ohio senator, he said, "There is still no cure for the common birthday"
  • Totally cosmic, dude-- this redhead orbited the earth in 1962 & again in 1998
  • This Ohioan is flying high as the ranking Democrat on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
  • On Feb. 20, 1962 the destroyer USS Noa found him floating in the Atlantic after a journey of 75,679 miles
  • Famous astro-returnee heard here:["I was going to be the fifth human in space & the first American to orbit"]

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