...John Herschel Glenn Jr.(born July 18, 1921) is a retired United States Marine Corps pilot, a former astronaut and United States senator who was the first American and third person to orbit the Earth. 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. Read full entry
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- 1.John Glenn - Wikipedia
- Hyperlinked biography of the U.S. astronaut and politician.
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- John Glenn, Jr. , Astronaut / U.S. Senator Born: 18 July 1921 Birthplace: Cambridge, Ohio Best Known As: The first American to orbit Earth John Glenn,
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Does anyone know anything I'm doing a report on John
Glenn. History and
accomplishments would be
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I know this will be so helpful but try wikipedia, if you're allowed to use it. Oh and as far as I know, he was technically the second man on the moon I believe. |
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john glenn?
did General Mills Company
offer him a million dollars to
appear on the Wheaties box,
And he turned it down on
principle?
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I twould be the first time he turned down money. He was involved in the infamous savings and loan scandal of the 1980s |
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What do you make of the John Glenn didn't seem to
think that the "fireflies"
were from his spacecraft. I
know that his spacecraft was
giving the landing bag
deployed sensor, but I just
wanted to get some added info
on what all of you think.
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John Glenn may not have thought that, but he was the first person to see them and he wasn't devoting any time to a detailed investigation of them. He had other things to do. Scott Carpenter, the next man to fly a Mercury spacecraft, WAS given study of the 'fireflies' as a task to perform, and he identified them as ice crystals jolted from the spacecraft during various uses of the manoeuvring system. He was even able to produce a swarm of them by rapping hard on the wall of the cabin. Debris and ice has been frequently observed on later spacecraft too. |
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