In which year did this United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio orbit the Earth for the first time who won the Senate election in Ohio in 1974?
John Glenn John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times.
1973 in spaceflight 1973 saw the launch of the first American Space station known as Skylab on a Saturn rocket.