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Away We Go is a 2009 comedy-drama directed by Academy Award-winning director Sam Mendes and written by the husband-and-wife team of Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida. John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio.

S. Died. December 8, 2. Columbus, Ohio, U. S. Resting place. Arlington National Cemetery. Political party. Democratic. Spouse(s)Annie Castor(m. 1.

Children. 2Education. Muskingum University(BS)University of Maryland, College Park.

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Civilian awards. Congressional Gold Medal. Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Congressional Space Medal of Honor. NASA Distinguished Service Medal. Signature. Military service. Service/branch. U. S. Navy. U. S. Marine Corps. Years of service.

Rank. Colonel. Unit. VMJ- 3. 53. VMO- 1. VMF- 2. 18. VMA- 3.

Fighter- Interceptor Squadron. Battles/wars. World War IIChinese Civil War. Korean War. Military awards. NASAastronaut. Other names. John Herschel Glenn, Jr.

Other occupation. Test pilot. Time in space. Selection. 19. 59 NASA Group 1. Missions. Mercury- Atlas 6.

Mission insignia. Retirement. January 1. Awards. NASAPayload Specialist.

Time in space. 9d 2h 3. Missions. STS- 9. Mission insignia. Awards. John Herschel Glenn Jr.

July 1. 8, 1. 92. December 8, 2. 01. United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. In 1. 96. 2, he became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. He shot down three Mi. G- 1. 5 aircraft, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals.

In 1. 95. 7, he made the first supersonictranscontinental flight across the United States. His on- board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States. He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1. NASA as the United States' first astronauts. On February 2. 0, 1. Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth person and third American in space.

He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1. Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1. U. S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1. Mercury Seven. Glenn resigned from NASA in January 1. He planned to run for a U. S. Senate seat from Ohio, but an injury in February 1.

He retired from the Marine Corps the following year. He lost a close primary election in 1. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn first won election to the Senate in 1. January 1. 99. 9. In 1. 99. 8, while still a sitting senator, Glenn became the oldest person to fly in space as a crew member of the Discovery space shuttle and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2.

Early life and education[edit]John Herschel Glenn Jr. July 1. 8, 1. 92. Cambridge, Ohio, the son of John Herschel Glenn Sr., who worked for a plumbing firm, and Clara Teresa née Sproat, a teacher.[1][2][3] His parents had married shortly before his father, a member of the American Expeditionary Force, left for the Western Front during World War I. The family moved to New Concord, Ohio, soon after his birth, and his father started his own plumbing company, the Glenn Plumbing Company.

He was only a toddler when he met Anna Margaret (Annie) Castor, who would later become his wife. The two would not be able to recall a time when they did not know each other. He took his first flight in an airplane with his father when he was eight years old. He became fascinated by flight, and built model airplanes from balsa wood kits.

Along with his adopted sister Jean, he attended New Concord Elementary School. He washed cars and sold rhubarb to earn money to buy a bicycle, after which he took a job delivering The Columbus Dispatch newspaper.

He was a member of the Ohio Rangers, an organisation similar to the Cub Scouts; Annie was a girl scout. His boyhood home in New Concord has been restored as a historic house museum and education center.[1. Glenn attended New Concord High School, where he played on the varsityfootball team as a center and linebacker. He also made the varsity basketball and tennis teams, and was involved with Hi- Y, a junior branch of the YMCA.

After graduating in 1. Glenn entered Muskingum College, where he studied engineering,[1. Annie majored in music, with minors in secretarial studies and physical education, as she was on the swimming and volleyball teams. Glenn was a member of the Stag Club fraternity there,[1.

He earned a private pilot license under the Civilian Pilot Training Program in 1. He did not complete his senior year in residence or take a proficiency exam, both required by the school for its Bachelor of Science degree. Muskingum awarded his degree in 1. Glenn's Mercury space flight.[1. Glenn married Annie in a Presbyterian ceremony at College Drive Church in Columbus, Ohio, on April 6, 1. They had two children—John David and Carolyn Ann—and two grandchildren, and remained married for 7.

Glenn's NASA friend Charles Bolden was inspired by the marriage.[a]Military career[edit]World War II[edit]When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II, Glenn quit college to enlist in the U. S. Army Air Corps.[2. Never called to duty, he enlisted as a U. S. Navyaviation cadet in March 1. Glenn attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City for pre- flight training and continued at Naval Air Station Olathe in Kansas for primary training, where he made his first solo flight in a military aircraft.

During advanced training at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas, he accepted an offer to transfer to the U. S. Marine Corps.[2. Having completed his pre- flight training in March 1. Glenn was commissioned as a second lieutenant. After advanced training at Camp Kearny, California, he was assigned to Marine Squadron VMJ- 3.

R4. D transport planes. Glenn was posted to the Marine Corps Air Station El Centro in California in July 1. VMO- 1. 55, which flew the F4. F Wildcatfighter.

The Wildcat was obsolete by this time, and VMO- 1. F4. U Corsair in September 1. He was promoted to first lieutenant in October 1. Hawaii in January 1. It was intended that VMO- 1. Marshall Islands but this was delayed, and on February 2. Midway Atoll and became part of the garrison.

This had been the site of the Battle of Midway in 1. VMO- 1. 55 moved to the Marshall Islands in June 1. He received two Distinguished Flying Crosses and ten Air Medals.[2. Glenn returned to the United States at the end of his one- year tour of duty in February 1. Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina and then to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland. He was promoted to captain in July 1.

Pacific War's end, but was uncertain of securing a regular commission in the Marine Corps. He was ordered back to Cherry Point, where he joined VMF- 9. Corsair squadron, and learned that he had qualified for a regular commission. In March 1. 94. 6, he was assigned to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in southern California. He volunteered for service with the occupation in North China, believing that it would be a short tour.

He joined VMF- 2. Corsair squadron), which was based at Nanyuan Field near Beijing, in December 1. VMF- 2. 18 was transferred to Guam in March 1. He finally returned home in December 1.