Story highlights
- John Glenn, a former astronaut and US senator, has been hospitalized
- He grew to become the primary American to orbit the Earth in 1962
"Sen. Glenn is at The James Most cancers Hospital at The Ohio State College (and) was admitted there greater than per week in the past," Wilson wrote in an e-mail. "I have no idea his situation or sickness or prognosis. I warning that though Sen. Glenn is at The James that doesn't essentially imply he has most cancers."
He grew to become the primary American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
Glenn piloted the Mercury area capsule, dubbed Friendship 7, and circled the planet 3 times in just below 5 hours on February 20, 1962. Of the unique seven US astronauts who made up Mission Mercury -- Glenn, Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Gordon Cooper, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Donald Slayton -- Glenn is the final surviving member.
Previous to his profession as an astronaut, Glenn flew 149 missions throughout World Warfare II and the Korean Warfare and acquired a number of medals and decorations, together with the Distinguished Flying Cross on six events.
He resigned from the astronaut program in 1964 and pursued a profession in politics, serving as a US senator as a Democrat from Ohio between 1974 and 1999. He even ran for president in 1984. However Glenn's time in area wasn't over.
At 77, he grew to become the oldest individual to ever journey in area. Glenn was a payload specialist aboard the area shuttle Discovery for a nine-day mission in 1998.
This 12 months, he attended a celebration that noticed the renaming of Port Columbus Airport to John Glenn Columbus Worldwide Airport.
Glenn and his spouse, Annie, have been married for 73 years. Collectively, they've two kids.
No comments:
Post a Comment