JOHN GLENN 1921 ASTRONAUT AND SENATOR GLENN JOHN 1921 U.S GOV'T LEGISLATIVE TECHNOLOGY POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTIONS AND POLITICS TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY JOHN GLENN WAS BORN IN OHIO HE ATTENDED COLLEGE BUT LEFT TO JOIN THE MILITARY AFTER THE UNITED STATES ENTERED WORLD WAR II GLENN BECAME A MARINE PILOT IN 1943 HE FLEW 59 MISSIONS DURING WORLD WAR II AND 90 MISSIONS DURING THE KOREAN WAR IN 1954 GLENN BECAME A MILITARY TEST PILOT WHEN THE U.S SPACE PROGRAM NEEDED ASTRONAUTS IN 1959 GLENN WAS ONE OF SEVEN MEN SELECTED HE FLEW IN FRIENDSHIP 7 IN 1962 TO BECOME THE FIRST AMERICAN IN SPACE HE RETURNED AN AMERICAN HERO AND IN 1964 QUIT THE SPACE PROGRAM TO GO INTO BUSINESS IN 1974 GLENN WON THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION FOR U.S SENATOR FROM OHIO AND THE ELECTION HE LOST THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION TO WALTER MONDALE IN 1984 REELECTED TO THE SENATE IN 1986 AND 1992 GLENN DECLINED TO RUN IN 1998 SAYING HE WAS TOO OLD IN OCTOBER 1998 GLENN FLEW INTO SPACE AS PART OF A SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION WHICH TESTED THE EFFECTS OF SPACE ON OLDER AMERICANS
