Remembering Col. John Glenn

John Glenn was one of the great Americans of the 20th Century. As one of the seven original Mercury astronauts, he was the first American to orbit the Earth. In his Friendship 7 capsule, he circled the Earth three times in February 1962. Before his time as an astronaut he was a fighter pilot in World War II and Korea, and afterwards he went on to become a four-term senator from Ohio. At the age of 77, he became the oldest person to go into space when he was aboard the space shuttle Discovery in October 1998. He was married to his wife Annie for 73 years, and his portrayal in the 1983 movie The Right Stuff by Ed Harris is one of the most memorable in American cinema.