💫 As a founding member of our human spaceflight program, former NASA astronaut John Glenn propelled humanity into the stars. Today, 100 years after his birth, we invite you to explore his life and legacy through photos in this special feature:
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was born on July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio. He grew up in the nearby small town of New Concord with his parents, John and Clara, and his sister, Jean. He would later write that a boy could not have had a more idyllic early childhood.Four-year-old John Glenn plays in the snow at his boyhood home in New Concord, Ohio, in 1925.When he wasn’t in school, young John Glenn helped at his father’s plumbing business in New Concord, Ohio.
Background photo : John Glenn receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2012.John Glenn is sworn into the U.S. Senate by Vice President Nelson Rockefeller in December 1974.John Glenn speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the 1980s.On Oct. 29, 1998, at age 77, John Glenn made history once again when he became the oldest man to fly in space.
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