John Flenn Research Paper

To boldly go where NO other 77-year old has gone before. John Glenn was the first American to EVER orbit the earth, and later on he was the oldest man to EVER go into space! John Glenn had a very interesting life. He was an astronaut, he served in the military, he was a husband, father, grandfather, and even a senator. His early life was very important to him, being an astronaut was a big part of his life, and being a Marine Aviator was something that showed his true patriotism. When John Glenn was just two years old, he moved to New Concord, Ohio. There his father ran a plumbing business. As he lived in that town he developed an early interest in science. Particularly to aeronautics. He also developed a new strong sense of patriotism. Which
He was in one of the first groups of astronauts. It was called the “Mercury Seven”. It was called that because it was seven men on the Mercury spacecraft. The first thing that John Glenn did that went down into history was, he was the first American to ever orbit the Earth. At that time two Americans had already been sent into space but none of them had orbited the Earth. The “Mercury Seven” launched on February 20, 1962. John Glenn renamed the group of astronauts to “Friendship 7”. They orbited the Earth 3 times. It took them about five hours, and it proved that the spacecraft was successful, and it helped NASA learn more. Then later on in John Glenn’s life in 1998 he announced his second flight. It was 36 years after his first flight. It was the longest time between any two space flights ever. NASA wanted John Glenn to be in this flight, because they wanted to see/study how space affects the elderly. Doctor’s had been following John Glenn’s health ever since he had first become an astronaut. There were six other astronauts on this space flight. They flew on a STS-95 mission of the space shuttle Discovery. That flight made John Glenn the oldest man to ever fly into space, at the age of