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Today's featured article John Glenn (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, astronaut, and politician. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across 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, and the fifth person and third American in space. After retiring from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic U.S. senator from Ohio. In 1998, Glenn flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-95, making him the oldest person to enter Earth orbit and the only person to fly in both Project Mercury and the Space Shuttle program. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. (Full article...) Recently featured: Cora Agnes Benneson Hanford Engineer Works Jacques Offenbach Did you know... Red Rock sunflower ... that the newly discovered and critically imperiled Red Rock sunflower (Helianthus devernii) has only been found around two desert springs located in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area? ... that football player Julian Lewis received offers to play college football before he had attended high school? ... that carpenter Cumming Haswell erected a historic villa, later described as "modestly-scaled but ornamental"? ... that Terry Pratchett's earliest Discworld stories were posthumously found and published by two of his fans? ... that the flaming finale of Joan by Alexander McQueen has been read as an image of violence, resilience, transcendence, and resurrection? ... that the 2016 festival South by South Lawn included a panel discussion on climate change led by President Obama? ... that Melani Budianta used street gangs and Moonies in Los Angeles to reflect on the state of democracy in Indonesia? ... that Stardust's only song earned them a $3 million offer from a record label, but they refused? ... that Bill Wurtz once accepted an award with a two-word acceptance speech?

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