John Glenn portrait with AUTOGRAPH

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John Glenn portrait with AUTOGRAPH.
John Herschel Glenn Jr.
(July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator,, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the third American in space (according to modern definitions), and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962.
Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of 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, the third American and fifth person in history to be in space. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1962, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.