Combat veteran in World War II and Korea, graduate of the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School, and holder of the transcontinental speed record, Marine aviator Col. USMC, (Ret.) John H. Glenn, Jr. was one of the original seven Mercury astronauts. On February 20,
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