John Glenn never travelled to the moon. On February 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission becoming the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth circling the earth three times.
John Glenn orbited the earth, the first American to do so. He was forty at the time.
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40 (his birthday was in July but he orbited the earth in February)
John Glenn never landed on the moon. He orbited the Earth in 1962 (the first US astronaut to do so). He resigned from NASA in 1964 and pursued a career in politics. Glenn flew into Earth orbit again in 1998 as part of a NASA experiment into the effects of space travel on the elderly.
John Glenn orbited the earth three times oFebruary 20, 1962 becoming the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth.
Former NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator from Ohio John Glenn was born in Cambridge, Ohio on July 18, 1921. He orbited the earth on February 20, 1962 at age 40.