John Glenn 1921–2016

Notes

John Herschel Glenn Jr. was born on 18 July 1921 and died on 8 December 2016. Those dates, the years 1921–2016, and the alias John H. Glenn are already on this Echo. The summary names the astronaut who became the first American to orbit Earth, and it says the Echo is the name and span, not a biography. The public record places the orbital flight in 1962 and says he circled Earth three times. He was the third American in space and the first American to orbit. In 1998, at the age of seventy-seven, he flew in space again. Earth is named because the summary already says he orbited Earth. This note does not add a state, a base, or an elected office. The two flight years are the expansion of the achievement already named in the summary. NASA’s history page for the 1962 flight, and NASA’s people page, are linked below with the Wikipedia article. This research sheet is the page reached by johnglenn.si.

External reading:

• John Glenn — Wikipedia
• John H. Glenn — NASA
• John Glenn and Friendship 7 — NASA History