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
Glenn Miller Medley Glenn Miller Medley The "Glenn Miller Medley" (also called "Plays Glenn Miller") was a single by the John Anderson Big Band. It was a medley, covering several songs previously recorded by jazz musician Glenn Miller, including "In the Mood", "American Patrol", "Little Brown Jug" and "Pennsylvania 6-5000". It first entered the UK Singles Chart on 21 December 1985, and reached a peak position of number 63, and remained in the chart for 2 weeks. It re-entered the chart on 11 January 1986, remaining there for 3 more weeks, and reaching number 61. It was later sampled by Jive Bunny and