John Glenn was not popular with the other astronauts. Glenn was the backup pilot for Shepard and Grissom on the first two manned Project Mercury flights, the sub-orbital missions Mercury-Redstone 3 and Mercury-Redstone 4. Glenn was selected for Mercury-Atlas 6, NASA's first manned orbital flight, with Carpenter as his backup. Putting a man in orbit would achieve one of Project Mercury's most important goals. Shepard and Grissom had named their spacecraft "Freedom 7" and "Liberty Bell 7". The numeral 7 had originally been the production number of Shepard's spacecraft, but had come to represent the Mercury 7. Glenn named his spacecraft, number
John Glenn (screenwriter) Charlize Theron, Virginia Madsen, Sophia Bush, Jason O'Mara, and Angela Bassett. Glenn is currently in development on a new "Merlin", a franchise film and book property that reinvents Arthurian legend. In the summer of 2013 Glenn signed a new two-year deal to develop and write for Universal TV. His company, John Glenn Entertainment, is located on the Universal lot. Glenn attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and currently lives in San Marino, California with his wife and three kids. John Glenn (screenwriter) John Patrick Glenn is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. Glenn was born in Tuscaloosa,