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Glenn, John
     
Glenn, John
(1921-) the first US astronaut to make a journey in space in 1962. In 1974 he became a member of the US Senate for the Democratic Party, representing the state of Ohio. In 1998, he again went into space, becoming the oldest man to do so.
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