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	John Glenn
		John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth and he was the oldest person to ever fly in space.
		John Glenn was born on July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio.
		John Glenn was assigned to NASA in April 1959 and has been in space 218 hours.
	dusd.k12.ca.us /des/bwebb/reports/space/glenn.html (190 words)

	John Glenn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Glenn's participation in the nine-day mission was criticized by some in the space community as a junket for a politician.
		In 1964 John Glenn announced that he was resigning from the space program to run against incumbent Senator Stephen M. Young in the Democratic primary, but he was forced to withdraw when he suffered an injury in his bathroom after attempting to adjust a heavy mirror.
		In 1970, Glenn contested for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate; however, Glenn was defeated in the primary by fellow Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, who went on to lose the general election race to Robert Taft Jr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Glenn (1509 words)

	Kids.net.au - Encyclopedia John Glenn - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After the war, Glenn flew patrol missions in North China, based in Guam, but in 1948 he became an flight instructor at Corpus Christi, Texas, then undertook an amphibious warfare course and was assigned a staff assignment, all the while angling to get transferred to combat in Korea.
		In 1958 Glenn joined NASA as one of the original group of astronauts for the Mercury program, and flew the first American manned orbital mission termed "Friendship 7" on February 20, 1962.
		Glenn's presence on the nine-day mission was widely criticised by many in the space community as an expensive junket for one of NASA's Congressional supporters.
	www.kidsseek.com /encyclopedia-wiki/jo/John_Glenn (408 words)

	John Herschel Glenn, Jr
		John H. Glenn was born July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio.
		Glenn entered the Naval Aviation Cadet Program in March 1942 and was graduated and commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1943.
		Glenn was assigned to the NASA Space Task Group in April 1959, after his selection as a Project Mercury astronaut.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Dictionary/GLENN/DI165.htm (400 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		Glenn retired from the astronaut program in 1964 and from the Marine Corps in 1965, becoming a business executive and consultant to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
		In 1974 Glenn was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat from Ohio.
		Between Oct. 29 and Nov. 7, 1998, Glenn fulfilled a longtime ambition when he served as a payload specialist on the space shuttle Discovery, becoming, at age 77, the oldest person ever to fly in space.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/space/johnglen.html (317 words)

	The My Hero Project - John Glenn
		Glenn won his Ohio Senate seat in 1974 and was re-elected in 1980 with the largest margin in Ohio history.
		In 1998, Senator Glenn was a passenger on the sleek, state-of-the-art Space Shuttle Discovery, which had 10 times the windows and whose mission was to study the effects of space flight and weightlessness on the elderly.
		John Wesley Powell is an internationally venerated advocate for preserving biodiversity.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=J_Glenn (787 words)

	NASA Biography - John Glenn
		John H. Glenn, Jr., Colonel, USMC (Ret.), was born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio.
		Glenn was assigned to the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in April 1959 after his selection as a Project Mercury Astronaut.
		Glenn's "Friendship 7" Mercury spacecraft landed in an area in the Atlantic approximately 800 miles southeast of Cape Kennedy in the vicinity of Grand Turk Island.
	science.ksc.nasa.gov /persons/astronauts/e-to-h/GlennJH.html (671 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - John Glenn: A Memoir - John Glenn - Compact Disc - Abridged, 5 CDs, 6 hrs.
		John Glenn takes us into the cockpits of the experimental planes and spacecraft he flew to experience the pulse-pounding excitement of the early days of jet aviation, including his record-setting transcontinental flight in an F8U Crusader in 1957, and then on to his selection for the Project Mercury program in 1959.
		John Glenn has spent most of his life in public service, as a distinguished U.S. senator and a veteran of twenty-three years in the Marine Corps, during which time he was awarded numerous medals for his achievements, as well as the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
		Glenn's exploits as a pilot during WWII and Korea, as well as his high-altitude feats as a test pilot in the 1950s, are re-created with hair-raising immediacy in a gripping first-person narrative written with an assist from Taylor (whose books include the memoir A Necessary End).
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=0M61WOB8VH&isbn=0553456628&itm=2 (1582 words)

	40th Anniversary of Mercury 7: John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
		John Herschel Glenn, Jr., Colonel USMC (Ret.), was born on July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio.
		Glenn's family joined him there, too, and after a ceremony at which the President presented him with the Space Congressional Medal of Honor, Glenn took his wife and children up to the capsule—which had also been brought back to the Cape—and showed them how well it had sustained the flight.
		Glenn was a test subject for what is an expanded effort by NASA and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to study the aging process in older persons.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/40thmerc7/glenn.htm (2773 words)

	John Glenn Biography
		John H. Glenn, Jr., was born in Cambridge, Ohio, on July 18, 1921, the son of John Herschel and Clara Sproat Glenn.
		One of Glenn's most notable accomplishments during this period was the 1957 speed record he set flying from Los Angeles to New York in three hours and 23 minutes.
		Glenn accepted the invitation and on October 29, 1998, became the oldest human ever to venture into space.
	www.johnglennhome.org /john_glenn.shtml (793 words)

	John Glenn
		Glenn was transferred by helicopter from the USS Noa to the USS Randolph, and then flown to Grand Turk for his debriefing and medical as planned.
		Glenn became an advocate for the American Space program, hiding his disappointment at not being allowed a chance to go to the moon: it is claimed Kennedy would not risk the life of America’s first space hero.
		In 1974 John Glenn was elected U.S. Senator from Ohio in a landslide victory.
	www.tcmuseum.org /space_race/john_glenn (940 words)

	John Glenn Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, Glenn was handicapped by age (37), height (at 5 feet, 11 inches he was considered too tall), and the lack of a college degree.
		Glenn was present when Kennedy was assassinated, and the Kennedy family asked Glenn to tell six of the Kennedy children about the assassination.
		Glenn spent nine days in space undergoing various experiments to research possible links between the human aging process and the negative symptoms experienced by astronauts exposed for a lengthy period of time to the weightlessness of space.
	library.osu.edu /sites/archives/glenn/glennchron.htm (1774 words)

	John Glenn - Senator
		After he orbited the Earth in 1962, John Glenn stood in the Capitol building and addressed a joint session of Congress.
		In 1974, Glenn defeated Metzenbaum in the primary and won the Ohio senate seat.
		Glenn currently serves on several Senate committees: the committees on governmental affairs and armed services, the select committee on intelligence and the special committee on aging.
	www.chron.com /content/interactive/space/johnglenn/senator.html (359 words)

	Astronaut Scholarship Foundation: John H. Glenn, Jr.
		John H. Glenn Jr., one of America's original Mercury Seven astronauts, in 1962 became the first American to orbit the earth.
		Following Korea, Glenn was selected for test pilot training, and in 1957 he set a transcontinental speed record from Los Angeles to New York in an F8U jet, the first such flight to average supersonic speed.
		Glenn did not seek reelection to the Senate in 1998, and retired to write a book about his life, "John Glenn: A Memoir." He and his wife, Annie, have homes in Columbus, Ohio, and Bethesda, Md.
	www.astronautscholarship.org /glenn.html (472 words)

	John Glenn, Astronaut (Site not responding. Last check: )
		John Herschel Glenn, Jr.was born 18 July 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio.
		Glenn retired on 1 January,1965 and became a businessman.
		John Glenn is married and he and his wife Anna have two grown children and two grandchildren.
	www.kidcyber.com.au /topics/johnglenn.htm (191 words)

	John Glenn
		John Glenn was one of the first seven astronauts in NASA's space program.
		John Glenn was born in Ohio in 1921.
		John Glenn was a fighter pilot during World War II and the Korean conflict.
	starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/StarChild/whos_who_level1/glenn.html (233 words)

	John Glenn
		John Glenn was given the opportunity for a second space flight 36 years after his first flight.
		John Glenn was selected as one of seven Project Mercury astronauts in 1959.
		John Glenn retired from the Marine Corps in 1965.
	starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/glenn.html (373 words)

	John Glenn
		John Glenn Middle School opened in the fall of 1962 and has the distinction of being the first school in the country named after astronaut John Glenn.
		Moments after Glenn and his crew orbited the earth, District 622's business manager called Walter Cronkite, a young television anchorman, to inform him the district would be naming its new school after Glenn.
		John Glenn is a true middle school, built around the house concept in which each grade level has a majority of its classes located in one area.
	www.isd622.org /johnglenn (175 words)

	John Glenn: Friendship 7 - Page Seven (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After the completion of the Mercury program, John Glenn received the Space Congressional Medal of Honor and was received at the White House by President Kennedy.
		Glenn's specialty, flight control systems and cockpit instrumentation, would be tapped throughout as the United States achieved the decade's ultimate goal, putting a man on the moon.
		To the astonishment and pleasure of the nation, NASA has asked John Glenn to return to space as part of STS-95, scheduled for launch in October 1998.
	www.historicwings.com /features98/mercury/seven-left-bottom.html (361 words)

	John H. Glenn, Jr.
		After Korea, Glenn attended the Navy test pilot school at Patuxent River, Maryland, and was assigned to the Fighter Design Branch of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington.
		Glenn was chosen with the first group of astronauts in 1959.
		In January 1963, Glenn was assigned to Project Apollo planning, specializing in the design and development of the spacecraft and flight control systems.
	www.allstar.fiu.edu /aerojava/glenn.htm (418 words)

	NASA - John Glenn - Space Pioneer
		John Glenn's groundbreaking career as an astronaut made him an American hero and an inspiration to people around the globe.
		John Glenn was presented with an Ambassador of Exploration award.
		The John Glenn School of Public Affairs is located at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
	www.nasa.gov /centers/glenn/about/bios/john_glenn.html (275 words)

	John Glenn Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After World War II, Glenn flew patrol missions in North China, based in Guam, and in 1948 he became an flight instructor at Corpus Christi, Texas, after which he took an amphibious warfare course and was given a staff assignment, all the while seeking transfer to combat in Korea.
		Glenn later flew in Korea with the Air Force on an interservice exchange.
		On July 16, 1957, Glenn completed the first supersonic transcontinental flight in a Vought F8U "Crusader." The California to New York flight took 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/John_Glenn (1762 words)

	John Glenn - EnchantedLearning.com
		Glenn was born on July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio.
		In 1943, Glenn was commissioned in the Marine Corps and joined Marine Fighter Squadron 155; he flew F-4U fighter planes on 59 combat missions in the Marshall Islands (islands in the Pacific Ocean) during World War 2.
		Glenn was elected US Senator from Ohio on November, 1974, and served until January, 1999.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/g/glenn.shtml (341 words)

	Space Today Online - Astronaut John Glenn
		John Glenn seems to have done it all -- college graduate, distinguished war hero, first American to orbit Earth, U.S. senator, the oldest person to fly in space.
		John Glenn gained national recognition in 1957 when he set a transcontinental speed record, flying from Los Angeles to New York in 3 hours and 23 minutes.
		On October 29, 1998, John Glenn, at age 77, became the oldest person in space when he and six other astronauts were lofted to Earth orbit for nine days aboard shuttle Discovery.
	www.spacetoday.org /Astronauts/JohnGlenn.html (490 words)

	John Glenn, 33°, Astronaut And Senator
		John Herschel Glenn, Jr., was born on July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio.
		John Glenn was to be the third but the first actually to orbit the Earth.
		Although it exonerated Glenn of wrongdoing, the Senate Ethics Committee decided Glenn had used "poor judgment." More recently, his long-established bipartisan image suffered as a result of his actions on the Thompson committee where he was viewed by many as more interested in shielding the administration than in getting to the truth.
	www.srmason-sj.org /council/journal/feb00/tribe.html (1486 words)

	John Glenn
		Glenn and the Marine fliers of VMO-155 arrived at Majuro, in the Marshalls in July, 1944, after the heavy fighting in that area had subsided.
		Glenn's first combat mission took place a few days after he landed; it was flak suppression.
		Glenn loved combat flying, even though it wasn't air-to-air combat, it was "flying with a purpose" and the bombing runs "were a test of skill, nerve, preparation, and focus that I relished."
	www.acepilots.com /korea_glenn.html (2240 words)

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