“The Right Stuff” author Tom Wolfe once said of John H. Glenn Jr. that he is “the last true national hero America has ever had.” America lost that true hero on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, when Glenn died ...

WASHINGTON, 9 December (BelTA - Xinhua) - John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, has died. He was 95. U.S. space agency NASA said Glenn died Thursday at the Ohio State University ...

Glenn, a small-town boy who later became one of Ohio's longest-serving U.S. senators, is remembered as the first American to orbit Earth.