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Happy 95th Birthday to Astronaut and Senator John Glenn!

John H. Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7 as one of @nasa’s original “Mercury Seven” astronauts, former United States Senator from Ohio, and oldest human to go into space, was born 95 years ago on July 18, 1921.

• The John Glenn Story, 1963.

• Photograph of Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. in His Mark IV Pressure Suit.

  1/23/1962 

• Press release photograph of astronaut John Glenn

• Payload specialist John Glenn gives a thumbs up to the cameraman.

  11/18/1998