John Glenn was a fearless pilot and astronaut who became the very first American to orbit the Earth! He loved exploring and showed us that you are never too old to go on a grand adventure. John Glenn is one of the greatest space heroes in American history!
John flew in a small spaceship named Friendship 7 and zipped all the way around our planet three whole times in 1962! Everyone cheered as he looked out his tiny window at the big, beautiful oceans below. Many years later, when John was 77 years old, he blasted off into space again on the Space Shuttle Discovery! This made him the oldest person to ever travel to space.
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