Quick Info
| Profession | Astronaut |
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| Nationality | American |
| Date of Birth | 18/07/1921 |
| Age | 95 years (died on 08, Dec, 2016) |
| Birthplace | Cambridge, Ohio, U.S. |
| Date of Death | 08/12/2016 |
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Physical Stats & More
| Height | 175 cm |
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| Weight | 74 kg |
| Eye Color | Greyish |
| Hair Color | White (Old age) and Brown (Young age) |
Educational Qualification(s)
| Graduation and Engineering degree | Muskingum College (B.S. in Engineering, 1962) |
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Personal Life
| Death Cause | Not Known |
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| Zodiac sign/Sun sign | Cancer |
| School | New Concord High School |
| College | Muskingum College |
Relationships & More
| Marital Status | Married |
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| Affairs/Girlfriends | Not Known |
| Wife/Spouse | Annie Glenn (m. 1943) |
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Family
| Father | John Herschel Glenn, Sr. |
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| Mother | Clara Teresa Glenn |
| Spouse | Annie Glenn |
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Career
| Selected as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts by NASA on 09/04/1959. | |
| Served as backup pilot for Alan Shepard's and Gus Grissom's suborbital flights. | |
| Piloted the Friendship 7 spacecraft on Mercury-Atlas 6, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth on 20/02/1962, completing three orbits. | |
| Served as U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1974 to 1999. | |
| Flew as payload specialist on STS-95 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery from 29/10/1998 to 07/11/1998 at age 77, becoming the oldest person to fly in space, logging over 218 hours in space across two missions. | |
| Flew 59 combat missions in the South Pacific during World War II as a U.S. Marine Corps pilot. | |
| Flew 90 combat missions during the Korean War, including downing three MiG-15s in the final nine days of the conflict. | |
| In July 1957, set a transcontinental speed record flying an F8U Crusader from Los Alamitos, California, to Floyd Bennett Field, New York, in 3 hours, 23 minutes, averaging supersonic speed. | |
| Graduated from the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School in Patuxent River, Maryland, in 1954. | |
| Retired from the U.S. Marine Corps as a colonel in 1965. |
Some Lesser Known Facts
| 1. John Glenn's smoking habits are unknown. | |
| 2. John Glenn's alcohol consumption is unknown. | |
| 3. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, John Glenn joined the Naval Aviation Cadet Program and completed 59 combat missions in the Pacific during World War II. | |
| 4. He was the first U.S. senator to orbit the Earth and the third American in space, ranking as the fifth person in space overall. | |
| 5. John Glenn orbited the Earth aboard Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962. | |
| 6. From 1974 to 1999, he served as a Senator representing Ohio in the United States Senate. | |
| 7. Received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1962. | |
| 8. Received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978. | |
| 9. Inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990. | |
| 10. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. | |
| 11. Accumulated nearly 9,000 hours of flying time, with approximately 3,000 hours in jet aircraft. | |
| 12. Received the Air Medal with 18 Clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross six times for combat service. |