Name: Glenn, John Country: USA M/F: M Number of Flights: 2

Space Flights Launch Date - Rocket No. Landing Date - Rocket No.
1. Friendship 7 February 20, 1962 - Atlas 109D February 20, 1962 - Atlas 109D
Space Flights Launch Date - Shuttle Landing Date - Shuttle
2. STS-95 October 29, 1998 - Discovery November 7, 1998 - Discovery

Space Flights Descriptions
Freedom 7
(Mercury-Redstone 3)
Backup Pilot for Freedom 7
Mercury-Redstone 3 used Spacecraft 7 (Freedom 7)
Liberty Bell 7
(Mercury-Redstone 4)
Backup Pilot for Liberty Bell 7
Mercury-Redstone 4 used Spacecraft-11 (Liberty Bell 7)
Mercury-Redstone 5
(Cancelled)
Proposed Prime Crew
Each of the Mercury 7 astronauts was supposed to a fly a suborbital flight under the original Mercury project plan before the orbital Atlas flights. Additional suborbital flights were cancelled in August 1961.
1. Friendship 7
(Mercury-Atlas 6)
First American in orbit
Mercury-Atlas 6 used Spacecraft-13 (Friendship 7)
2. STS-95 Hubble Space Telescope Orbiting Systems Test Payload (HOST)
Deployed and retrieval Spartan 201-05

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Updated - June 5, 2006