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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nWe get the sad news this evening that one of my heroes as a boy has passed at the age of 95. Everyone wanted to be an astronaut with the dashing figure of John Glenn in every classroom across the country after his historic orbit of the Earth on February 20th, 1962 on Friendship 7. During World War II, he flew 59 combat missions in the Pacific against the Japanese as a Marine Corps pilot in F4U Corsair planes. During the Korean War, he flew 63 combat missions in his F9F Panther. He was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and 19 Air Medals for his wartime service.<\/p>\n
He retired from the Marines in 1965 and went into politics. From ABC6<\/a>;<\/p>\n At 77, Glenn became the oldest person to go into space when he was a payload specialist in October of 1998, after he lobbied NASA for two years to fly “as a human guinea pig for geriatric studies.”<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n He and his wife Annie were married for 73 years, raising their two children (Carolyn Ann and John David), and two grandchildren.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"