John Glenn: Timeline

1921   Born

1957   United States Marine Major John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California California

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 to New York New York

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 in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds setting a new transcontinental speed record.

1962   Mercury program: While aboard ''Friendship 7'', John Glenn orbits the Earth Earth

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 3 times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth.

1964   John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth Earth

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, resigns from the space program and announces the next day that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio Ohio

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1964   John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in his Columbus, Ohio Columbus, Ohio

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 apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring his left inner ear, and prompting him (later that week) to withdraw from the race for the Senate nomination.

1998   NASA NASA

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 announces that John Glenn will return to space when the Space Shuttle ''Discovery Discovery

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'' blasts off in October.

1998   STS-95: The Space Shuttle ''Discovery Discovery

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'' blasts-off with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into spa He became the first American United States

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 to orbit the Earth on Tuesday, February 20, 1962.

1998   John Glenn returns to Earth Earth

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 aboard the Space Shuttle ''Discovery Discovery

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