http://b985.fm Central Maine's Country Sat, 25 May 2013 21:32:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://b985.fm/john-glenn-oldest-person-in-space/ http://b985.fm/john-glenn-oldest-person-in-space/#comments Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:18:20 +0000 Randy McCoy http://b985.fm/?p=29329 Today, October 29, is a special day in NASA history as astronaut John Glenn became the oldest person to travel in space. Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth aboard Mercury’s Friendship 7, orbiting Earth three times in about five hours. Alan Shepard and Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom, where the first American’s in space, but did not travel all the way around the planet.

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