While his work as US Senator was tarnished by the Keating Five scandal, Glenn's career in politics was a reasonably good one. But he will be remembered more (and with reason) for his earlier work as a test pilot and then one of the original Mercury astronauts, and being the first American to orbit the planet, in 1962.
Thank you, sir, for your service.
John Glenn, first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth and later spent 24 years representing Ohio in the Senate, has died at 95
Former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn has died in Ohio. He was 95.
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