Badass Birthday
On this date, one hunder and 5 years ago, in 1921, in Ohio, John Glenn was born.
John Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot having served in WWII and the Korean War. He made the first supersonic transcontential flight. He was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts. He was the third American in space and the first to orbit the Earth. Following his retirement from NASA he served as a US Sentor from Ohio from 1974 to 1999. While still in the Senate, in 1998, he went back into space on a Space Shuttle, at the age of 77, also becoming the only person to go into space in both the Mercury program and a Space Shuttle. He passed away in 2016 at the age of 95.
A life like that epitomizes Badassitude.
POLT
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