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- The ex-Marine and US Senator is best known for circling the earth in 1962 aboard a space capsule dubbed Friendship 7.
Upon returning to Earth, Glenn served the US Senate as a Democrat for 25 years.
In 1998, 36 years after his historic flight, he became the oldest man to travel to space at age 77.
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Reading about John Glenn's life and a passage hit me very, very hard. All of the Mercury 7 are gone now. Every day we lumber forward, I live with the fear that I will once again live in a world with no living humans that can claim to have walked on the surface of another world.