The 27-year-old cosmonaut traveled 327 kilometers above the Earth and orbited the planet at a speed of 27,400 kilometers per hour. April 12, 1961, Gagarin became the first person in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. In the months before his death, he was the oldest living former member of the Senate. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin a (9 March 1934 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. He had just become the first person to orbit the Earth.
Glenn went on to win that election and remained a member of the U.S. Glenn retorted, "You go with me to any Gold Star mother and you look her in the eye and tell her that her son did not hold a job." He was unsuccessful, but won a seat 10 years later, defending attacks on his military record in comments that came to be known as the "Gold Star Mothers" speech.ĭuring the 1974 primaries, opponent Howard Metzenbaum accused Glenn, a career military man, of never holding a real job. astronaut to orbit the Earth, flying a ship called the Friendship 7 around the world three times in a nearly five-hour flight on February 20, 1962.ĭuring that flight, Glenn told flight engineers back on Earth a phrase for which he became known: "Zero G, and I feel fine." Glenn meant that he had achieved weightlessness in space, or "zero gravity." astronauts assembled by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, in 1958. First artificial satellite to enter earths orbit. First artificial satellite to orbit the earth, 1.
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Navy and Marine Corps jet fighters and won a place in the first class of U.S. Name for a series of space missions launched by the soviet union, the first of which launched the first man-made object to orbit the earth.
While we have lost an American hero, we know Senator Glenn's legacy and pioneering spirit will live on through the work we carry out each day as we continue to advance human space exploration for the benefit of humanity."Īfter serving as a military pilot in World War II and the Korean conflict, Glenn was a test pilot on U.S. Ellen Ochoa, the director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas, said Thursday: "Our nation has lost a pioneer who contributed immensely to human space flight and inspired so many around the world.
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