{"id":167803,"date":"2016-12-05T19:33:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T00:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-394726"},"modified":"2024-06-10T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T22:19:00","slug":"john-glenn","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/people\/john-glenn\/","title":{"rendered":"John H. Glenn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-bio-intro maxw-full width-full padding-y-6 padding-x-3 hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-bio-intro\">\n\t<div class=\"hds-bio-intro-container grid-row grid-container grid-container-block padding-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-4 desktop:grid-col-3\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hds-bio-thumbnail width-10 tablet:width-card desktop:width-card-lg\">\n\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1535\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/S98-06862\/S98-06862~large.jpg?w=1535&h=1920&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"Official astronaut portrait of John Glenn for STS-95\" style=\"transform: scale(1.2); transform-origin: 46% 11%; object-position: 46% 11%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/S98-06862\/S98-06862~large.jpg?w=1535&h=1920&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 1535w, https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/S98-06862\/S98-06862~large.jpg?w=240&h=300&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 240w, https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/S98-06862\/S98-06862~large.jpg?w=768&h=961&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 768w, https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/S98-06862\/S98-06862~large.jpg?w=819&h=1024&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 819w, https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/S98-06862\/S98-06862~large.jpg?w=1228&h=1536&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 1228w, https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/S98-06862\/S98-06862~large.jpg?w=320&h=400&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 320w, https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/S98-06862\/S98-06862~large.jpg?w=480&h=600&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 480w, https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/S98-06862\/S98-06862~large.jpg?w=720&h=901&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 720w, https:\/\/images-assets.nasa.gov\/image\/S98-06862\/S98-06862~large.jpg?w=959&h=1200&fit=crop&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint 959w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1535px) 100vw, 1535px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-7 desktop:grid-col-9 grid-row margin-0 padding-0\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-8 margin-bottom-2 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-1 desktop:margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"display-60 display-block width-full\">John H. Glenn<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg padding-0 margin-0 color-carbon-60\">Former NASA Astronaut<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn died Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. <\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1892\" height=\"1502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg?w=1892\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"John Glenn relaxes after the flight of Friendship 7.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg 1892w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg?resize=300,238 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg?resize=768,610 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg?resize=1024,813 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg?resize=1536,1219 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg?resize=400,318 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg?resize=600,476 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg?resize=900,714 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/145210main_image_feature_534_ys_full.jpg?resize=1200,953 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1892px) 100vw, 1892px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Astronaut John Glenn relaxes aboard the USS Noa after being recovered from the Atlantic near Grand Turk Island after his historic Mercury flight. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February, 20, 1962 in his “Friendship 7” capsule. The Noa picked him up 21 minutes after impact.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\">Credits: NASA<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Glenn, who served four terms as a U.S. senator from Ohio, was one of NASA\u2019s original seven Mercury astronauts. His flight on Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962, showed the world that America was a serious contender in the space race with the Soviet Union. It also made Glenn an instant hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His mission of almost nine days on the space shuttle orbiter Discovery, launched Oct. 29, 1998, when he was 77, made him the oldest human to venture into space. On Discovery he participated in a series of tests on the aging process. The aging population was one focus of his work as a U.S. senator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glenn was described as \u201chumble, funny, and generous\u201d by Trevor Brown, dean of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at Ohio State University, in a statement joined by the Glenn family. \u201cEven after leaving public life, he loved to meet with citizens, school children in particular.  He thrilled to music and had a weakness for chocolate.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/official-mercury-portrait\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1041\" height=\"1324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464309main_s62-05540_full_0.jpg?w=1041\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"official portrait of John Glenn\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464309main_s62-05540_full_0.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464309main_s62-05540_full_0.jpg?resize=236,300 236w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464309main_s62-05540_full_0.jpg?resize=768,977 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464309main_s62-05540_full_0.jpg?resize=805,1024 805w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464309main_s62-05540_full_0.jpg?resize=315,400 315w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464309main_s62-05540_full_0.jpg?resize=472,600 472w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464309main_s62-05540_full_0.jpg?resize=708,900 708w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464309main_s62-05540_full_0.jpg?resize=944,1200 944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Official portrait of astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., the first American to orbit Earth in a Project Mercury spacecraft.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\">Credits: NASA<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/former-astronaut-john-h-glenn\/#media-gallery\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/former-astronaut-john-h-glenn\/#media-gallery\">Image Gallery: John Glenn <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qV_eAET43r0\" rel=\"noopener\">Video: Archival Footage from Glenn\u2019s Mercury Flight<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wasn\u2019t sure whether the flaming debris was the rocket pack or the heat shield breaking up. \u201cFortunately,\u201d he told an interviewer,\u201d it was the rocket pack \u2014 or I wouldn\u2019t be answering these questions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From Ohio to Orbit <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Herschel Glenn Jr. was born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio. He attended primary and secondary schools in New Concord, Ohio. He received a bachelor of science degree in engineering from Muskingum College in New Concord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muskingum College is among nine colleges or universities that subsequently awarded him honorary doctoral degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glenn entered the Naval Aviation Cadet Program in March 1942. He graduated and was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1943. After advanced training, he joined Marine Fighter Squadron 155 and spent a year flying F-4U fighters in the Marshall Islands. He flew 59 combat missions during World War II.<br> After the war, he was a member of Marine Fighter Squadron 218 on the North China patrol and served on Guam. From June 1948 to December 1950 he served as an instructor in advanced flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. He then attended Amphibious Warfare Training at Quantico, Va.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Korea he flew 63 missions with Marine Fighter Squadron 311. As an exchange pilot with the Air Force Glenn flew 27 missions in the F-86 Sabre. In the last nine days of fighting in Korea, Glenn shot down three MiGs in combat along the Yalu River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glenn attended Test Pilot School at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Md. After graduation, he was project officer on a number of aircraft. He was assigned to the Fighter Design Branch of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics (now Bureau of Naval Weapons) in Washington from November 1956 to April 1959. During that time he also attended the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 1957, while he was project officer of the F-8U Crusader, he set a transcontinental speed record from Los Angeles to New York \u2014 3 hours and 23 minutes. It was the first transcontinental flight to average supersonic speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glenn accumulated nearly 9,000 hours of flying time, about 3,000 of it in jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After his selection as a Mercury astronaut, Glenn was assigned to the NASA Space Task Group at Langley, Va., in April 1959. The Space Task Group was moved to Houston and became part of the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center in Houston) in 1962. Before his 4-hour, 55-minute flight in the Friendship 7 capsule, Glenn had served as backup pilot for astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space who flew on May 5, 1961, and to Virgil \u201cGus\u201d Grissom, who followed Shepard on a suborbital flight of his own.<br><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/john-glenn-goes-into-orbit\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1041\" height=\"781\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg?w=1041\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg?resize=400,300 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg?resize=600,450 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/friendship_7_8_glenn_ingressing_spacecraft_314095main_image_1288_full.jpg?resize=900,675 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20, 1962.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\">Credits: NASA<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>When astronauts were assigned to provide pilot input for the design and development of spacecraft, Glenn specialized in cockpit layout and control functioning, including some of the early designs for the Apollo Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glenn was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on six occasions, and holds the Air Medal with 18 Clusters for his service during World War II and Korea. Glenn also received the Navy Unit Commendation for service in Korea, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the World War II Victory Medal, the China Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation, the Navy\u2019s astronaut Wings, the Marine Corps\u2019 Astronaut Medal, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glenn resigned as an astronaut on Jan. 16, 1964. He was promoted to colonel in October 1964 and retired from the Marine Corps on Jan. 1, 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He became an executive with Royal Crown International, but took an active part in Ohio politics and environmental protection efforts. He won his Senate seat in 1974, carrying all 88 counties of Ohio. He was re-elected in 1980 with the largest margin in Ohio history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ohio returned him to the Senate for a third term in 1986, again with a substantial majority. In 1992 he was elected again, becoming the first popularly elected senator from his state to win four consecutive terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his last term he was the ranking member of both the Governmental Affairs Committee and the Subcommittee on Air\/Land Forces in the Senate Armed Services Committee. He also served on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Special Committee on Aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was considered one of the Senate\u2019s leading experts on technical and scientific matters, and won wide respect for his work to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction. He took pride in using his position on the Governmental Affairs Committee to root out waste in government and to clean up the nation\u2019s nuclear materials production plants.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/final-touches-glenns-shuttle-flight\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1041\" height=\"1036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?w=1041\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"John Glenn gets help donning his launch and entry suit during training for his STS-95 space shuttle mission.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg 1041w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?resize=300,300 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?resize=768,764 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?resize=1024,1019 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?resize=50,50 50w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?resize=100,100 100w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?resize=200,200 200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?resize=400,398 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?resize=600,597 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/464355main_98_04616_full_0.jpg?resize=900,896 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1041px) 100vw, 1041px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\"><div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">U.S. Sen. John H. Glenn Jr. (D.-Ohio), gets help with final touches of the donning of his partial-pressure launch and entry suit during training at the Johnson Space Center.<\/div><div class=\"hds-credits\">Credits: NASA<\/div><\/figcaption><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In 1998, Glenn flew on the STS-95 Discovery shuttle flight, a 9-day mission during which the crew supported a variety of research payloads including deployment of the Spartan solar-observing spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, and Glenn\u2019s investigations on space flight and the aging process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/former-astronaut-john-h-glenn\/\"><strong>More About Senator John H. Glenn<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-archived-news nasa-gb-align-full width-full maxw-full padding-x-3 padding-y-0 hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-archived-news\">\t\t<section class=\"padding-x-0 padding-y-3 desktop:padding-top-7 desktop:padding-bottom-9\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hds-grid-container w-100 grid-row grid-container maxw-widescreen padding-0 text-align-left\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-4\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"heading-22 width-full w-full maxw-full\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLearn More About John H. Glenn\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hds-grid-container grid-container padding-0\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-row grid-gap-lg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-4 margin-bottom-4 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-remembers-american-legend-john-glenn\/\" class=\"color-carbon-black\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"hds-cover-wrapper cover-hover-zoom bg-carbon-black minh-mobile\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/653885main_201205290001HQ_full.jpg?w=1024\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large\" alt=\"\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/653885main_201205290001HQ_full.jpg 2572w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/653885main_201205290001HQ_full.jpg?resize=284,300 284w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/653885main_201205290001HQ_full.jpg?resize=768,811 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/653885main_201205290001HQ_full.jpg?resize=970,1024 970w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/653885main_201205290001HQ_full.jpg?resize=1455,1536 1455w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/653885main_201205290001HQ_full.jpg?resize=1939,2048 1939w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/653885main_201205290001HQ_full.jpg?resize=379,400 379w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/653885main_201205290001HQ_full.jpg?resize=568,600 568w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/653885main_201205290001HQ_full.jpg?resize=852,900 852w, 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Article<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t12 years ago\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn died Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus.  Glenn, who served four terms as a U.S. senator from Ohio, was one of NASA\u2019s original seven Mercury astronauts. 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