Former NASA Astronaut, U.S. Senator John Glenn Laid to Rest in Arlington Cemetery

For­mer NASA Astro­naut, U.S. Sen­a­tor John Glenn Laid to Rest in Arling­ton Cemetery



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On April 6, for­mer astro­naut and U.S. Sen­a­tor John Glenn was interred at Arling­ton Nation­al Ceme­tery in Vir­ginia. Glenn, who passed away Dec. 8, 2016 at the age of 95, served four terms as a U.S. sen­a­tor from Ohio, and was one of NASA’s orig­i­nal sev­en Mer­cury astro­nauts. His flight on Friend­ship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962, made him the first Amer­i­can to orbit Earth. The riv­et­ing flight unit­ed our nation, launched Amer­i­ca to the fore­front of the space race and secured for him a unique place in the annals of history.



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