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John Glenn, né le 18 juillet 1921 à Cambridge (dans l' Ohio) et mort le 8 décembre 2016 à Columbus (dans le même État), est un astronaute et un homme politique américain. En 1962, à bord de la capsule de la mission spatiale Mercury-Atlas 6, Glenn fait trois fois le tour de la Terre et devient ainsi le premier Américain à ...
19 juil. 2022 · En 1962, John Glenn est devenu le troisième Américain à voler dans l'espace et le premier à réaliser un vol orbital autour de la Terre dans le cadre de la mission Mercury-Atlas 6. Retour sur l'histoire de cet astronaute qui a marqué le spatial américain.
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962.
9 mai 2024 · John Glenn (born July 18, 1921, Cambridge, Ohio, U.S.—died December 8, 2016, Columbus, Ohio) was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, completing three orbits in 1962. (Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, had made a single orbit of Earth in 1961.) Glenn joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1942.
13 juil. 2023 · Credits: NASA. Glenn, who served four terms as a U.S. senator from Ohio, was one of NASA’s original seven Mercury astronauts. His flight on Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962, showed the world that America was a serious contender in the space race with the Soviet Union. It also made Glenn an instant hero.
8 déc. 2016 · John Herschel Glenn, Jr.—an astronaut, fighter pilot, and U.S. senator who is best known for being the first American to orbit the planet—died on Thursday at age 95. Glenn was also the oldest...
18 févr. 2022 · On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John H. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth during the three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, aboard the spacecraft he named Friendship 7. Left: The Headquarters of the Space Task Group (STG) at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. Right: Robert R. Gilruth, director of the STG.
