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John Glenn

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Born: July 17 1921

Died: 0707 12 20162016

John Herschel Glenn, Jr. was a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and third American in space. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA's Mercury program as a member of NASA's original astronaut group. He orbited the Earth in Friendship 7 in 1962. After retiring from NASA, he entered politics as a Democrat and represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1974 to 1999.

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John Glenn

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John Glenn: A Memoir

Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight

We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves

Apollo: an Eyewitness Account by Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker Alan Bean

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography

A Journey through Time: Exploring the Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope

Die Kreuzritter

Letters to John Glenn: P.S. I Listened To Your Heartbeat

Liftoff: A Photobiography of John Glenn

Artifacts of Flight: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Into Orbit:

Back in Orbit: John Glenn's Return to Space

Obiettivo spazio. Un universo di immagini (I grandi speciali da collezione, #5)

John Glenn Jr--Debriefed: First thoughts and debriefing from his historic Friendship 7 flight

Project Mercury: Results of the First United States Manned Orbital Space Flight, February 20,1962, Friendship 7 Mission of John Glenn (Mercury-Atlas 6, MA-6), Including Air-to-Ground Transcript

Gift of Life

The Alpha Series

First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane

Civil Engineers!

Walt Disney World: The Happiest Celebration On Earth: Pictorial Memory Book