Astronaut and Senator John Glenn, 7/18/1921 - 12/08/2016
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Astronaut and Senator John Glenn earlier today. Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7 as one of @nasa’s original “Mercury Seven” astronauts, served as a United States Senator from Ohio from 1974 - 1999, and was the oldest human to go into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95 in 1998 at age 77.
Rest in peace, John Glenn.
Source: catalog.archives.gov