Descripción : Houston illustrated post stamp.
On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth.
On October 29, 1998, while still a sitting senator, he became the oldest person to fly in space, and the only one to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs, when at age 77, he flew as a Payload Specialist on Discovery mission STS-95.

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