Astronaut John Glenn Autographed Photo Gemini IV Earth Views

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ASTRONAUT JOHN GLENN SIGNED SPACE PHOTO
8 x 10 color glossy photo of views of the Earth taken by Gemini by 4 inscribed "To Dave, John Glenn".
In fine condition with Beckett COA
John Herschel Glenn Jr.
(July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a
United States Marine Corps aviator
, engineer,
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. Following his retirement from
NASA
, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a
Democratic
United States Senator
from
Ohio
; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77.
Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished
fighter pilot
in
World War II
,
China
and
Korea
. He shot down three
MiG-15s
, and was awarded six
Distinguished Flying Crosses
and eighteen
Air Medals
. In 1957, he made the first
supersonic
transcontinental flight
across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States.
He was one of the
Mercury Seven
, military
test pilots
selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the
Friendship 7
mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, the third American and fifth person in history to be in space. He received the
NASA Distinguished Service Medal
in 1962, the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
in 1978, was inducted into the
U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
in 1990, and received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 2012.
Glenn resigned from NASA in January 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn was first
elected to the Senate in 1974
and served for 24 years, until January 1999. Aged 77, Glenn flew on
Space Shuttle
Discovery
's
STS-95
mission, making him the oldest person to enter Earth’s orbit, and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and the
Space Shuttle programs
. Glenn, both the oldest and the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven, died at the age of 95 on December 8, 2016.
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