John Glenn, the last surviving member of the original seven American “Right Stuff” Mercury astronauts, has died at the age of 95 at the James Cancer Hospital at Ohio State University. Glenn was credited with reviving U.S. pride after the Soviet Union’s early domination of manned space exploration. His three laps around the world in the Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962, forged a powerful link between the former fighter pilot and the Kennedy-era quest to explore outer space as a “New Frontier.”
