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STS-95: John Glenn Returns to Space
John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...
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John Glenn's Importance to the U.S. Space Program — and to the Country Itself
John Glenn died at 95 Thursday ... to become the so-called “Mercury Seven,” America’s first astronauts. (Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper and Deke ...
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Ted Williams, John Glenn friendship revealed in book, author to speak in Naples
Lazarus will be the fourth and final speaker on Monday, March 17, in the sold-out 2025 Nonfiction Author Series, hosted by ...
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OTD In Space – February 20: John Glenn Becomes 1st American To Orbit Earth
John Glenn was the third American to launch ... He blasted off from Cape Canaveral in a Mercury spacecraft named Friendship 7 and circled the Earth three times. The mission lasted close to five ...