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John Glenn Remembered as Bold Astronaut and Statesman
The Mercury Seven hero and Ohio senator John Glenn, praised for courage and service, flew 149 combat missions, orbited Earth in 1962, and returned to space in 1998 at age 77. He shaped U S space policy, backed veterans and health issues, and inspired a nation through decades of public service.
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Tom Wolfe
Glenn
Mercury
John Glenn
America
U.S. Senate
Ohio
Capitol Hill
Senate
Marine Corps
Astronaut Corps
Soviet Union
Sputnik
Earth
U.S
NASA
Connie
Schultz
Annie
John
M. Scott Carpenter
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Virgil I
Gus” Grissom
Walter M
Wally” Schirra Jr
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Donald K. “Deke” Slayton
Cocoa Beach
Fla
Space Center
Cape Canaveral
Life Magazine
Wolfe
Shepard
Slayton
Grissom
Carpenter
Godspeed
Friendship 7
Atlantic Ocean
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Washington
New York
Broadway
John Herschel Glenn Jr
Cambridge
New Concord
Muskingum College
Navy
Aviation
Anna “Annie” Castor
Marshall Islands
Pacific
Guam
Texas
Korea
Ted Williams
Air Force
Naval Air Station
Patuxent River
Kennedy
Robert E Kennedy
Royal Crown Cola
Orlando
Kennedys
Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles
Robert Kennedy
McLean
Bob
Arlington National Cemetery
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Vietnam
Howard M. Metzenbaum
Robert Taft Jr
Metzenbaum
William B. Saxbe
United States Marine Corps
Veterans Hospital
Howard Metzenbaum
Howard
Department of Veterans Affairs
Charles H. Keating Jr
Senate Ethics Committee
Ohio State University
Columbus
Bethesda
J. David Glenn
Berkeley
Calif
Carolyn “Lyn” Glenn
St. Paul
Minn
Dayton
Space
Research
Cleveland
Sherrod Brown
Avon
Washington, D.C
Brown