John Glenn, first US astronaut to orbit Earth, dies aged 95
by Mazin Sidahmed and agencies from on (#24J2P)
Glenn served 24 years as a US senator from Ohio and later became the oldest person to be sent into space
John Glenn, a former astronaut and US senator for almost quarter of a century, has died in Ohio aged 95.
Glenn died on Thursday afternoon at the James cancer hospital in Columbus, according to Hank Wilson of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. Ohio governor John Kasich also confirmed the news on Twitter.
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