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John Glenn honored as cargo ship named for him blasts off
A cargo ship named the S.S. John Glenn launched atop an Atlas V from Cape Canaveral carrying 7700 pounds of supplies to the International Space Station. The flight honors John Glenn, Mercury 7 astronaut and first American to orbit Earth, who died in December and was buried at Arlington.
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International Space Station
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Arlington National Cemetery
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