John Glenn | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-05

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn


00:02:31 1 Early life and education
00:05:06 2 Military career
00:05:16 2.1 World War II
00:09:41 2.2 Korean War
00:13:30 2.3 Test pilot
00:16:16 3 NASA career
00:16:25 3.1 Selection
00:23:55 3.2 iFriendship 7/i flight
00:31:36 4 Political campaigning
00:31:46 4.1 1964 Senate campaign
00:35:49 4.2 1970 Senate campaign
00:38:09 4.3 1974 Senate campaign
00:41:01 4.4 1976 vice-presidential campaign
00:42:26 4.5 1980 Senate campaign
00:44:09 4.6 1984 presidential campaign
00:47:02 4.7 1986 Senate campaign
00:48:33 4.8 1992 Senate campaign
00:49:56 5 Senate career
00:50:05 5.1 Committee on Governmental Affairs
00:54:52 5.2 Other committees and activities
00:57:37 5.3 Keating Five
00:59:39 5.4 Retirement
01:00:12 6 Return to space
01:03:59 7 Personal life
01:05:49 8 Public appearances
01:07:44 9 Illness and death
01:11:03 10 Awards and honors
01:15:55 11 Legacy



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John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio.
Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States.
He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth person and third American in space. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1962, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Glenn resigned from NASA in January 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn was first elected to the Senate in 1974 and served for 24 years, until January 1999. In 1998, while still a sitting Senator, Glenn flew on the Discovery space shuttle's STS-95 mission, making him the oldest person to fly in space and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs. Glenn, the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven, died at the age of 95 in 2016. He is survived by his wife Annie Glenn, an advocate for people with disabilities and communication disorders.