40 (his birthday was in July but he orbited the earth in February)
The name of John Glenn's space shuttle when he first orbited the Earth in 1962 was Friendship 7.
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.
John Glenn orbited the Earth on February 20, 1962.
John Glenn orbited in Friendship-7 in 1962 .
John Glenn first orbited the Earth in 1962 upon the spaceship Friendship 7.
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 on February 20, 1962 as part of the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth.
John Glenn orbited the earth, the first American to do so. He was forty at the time.
John Glenn orbited the Earth three times in the Friendship 7 craft. Of course, he also orbited Earth in the shuttle Discovery on the nine-day mission STS-95.
In the Friendship 7 spacecraft, John Glenn made an orbit around the planet. John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962, thanks to the Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) mission.