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After becoming the first American astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn hoped to return to space and hoped to be the first person to set foot on the moon, but after NASA failed to put him on the flight rotation, he left the agency, retired from the Marine Corps, and joined the private work sector. He also nurtured a close friendship with Robert F. Kennedy. The two became so close that the Kennedys and the Glenns routinely vacationed together.

Kennedy became the Glenn's political mentor and was the reason that Glenn turned to politics, running for one of his native Ohio's two Senate seats. After trouble getting elected, Glenn eventually served more than two decades in the Senate but had his sights set on a higher goal - to return to space, regardless of the fact that he was seventy-seven years old!

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