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 Beall Jr. Canal Development Act, establishing the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, among others." Beall served as the President and Chairman of the charity The League for Crippled Children from 1978 until the time of his death. Beall resumed the insurance business in Cumberland, and was very active in the local community until his death as a result of cancer. He is interred in Frostburg Memorial Park Cemetery. John Glenn Beall Jr. John Glenn Beall Jr. (June 19, 1927March 24, 2006), known as J. Glenn Beall Jr., was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of