CHICAGO (CBS) — John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and long-time U.S. senator from Ohio, has died.
Former astronaut John Glenn looks on at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) on September 24, 2009 in New York City. (Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)
Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. He served as a U.S. senator from Ohio from 1974 to 1999.
Astronaut John Glenn, Jr. photographed in space by an automatic sequence motion picture camera. Glenn was in a state of weightlessness traveling at 17,500 mph as this picture was taken. (Credit: Getty Images)
Glenn, 95, had been admitted to the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, a few days, but that didn’t necessarily mean he had cancer, Hank Wilson with Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs said Wednesday.
Wilson said he didn’t have other information about Glenn’s condition.
John Glenn prepares for a flight on the Space Shuttle. (Credit: Getty Images)
Glenn apologized for his poor eyesight this year at the renaming of Columbus, Ohio airport after him. He said then he’d lost some of his eyesight because of macular degeneration and a small stroke. Glenn had a heart valve replacement in 2014.
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