life: John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, died on Dec. 8, 2016. He was 95.
life: John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, died on Dec. 8, 2016. He was 95. Glenn was a military man who flew 149 combat missions during the Korean War. In 1959, the year he posed for this portrait in a Mercury program pressure suit and helmet, he was announced as one of NASA’s original seven astronauts. Pictured here on the cover of the Feb. 2, 1962 cover - MAKING OF A BRAVE MAN. (Ralph Morse—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #JohnGlenn -- source link