John Glenn of the Mercury Seven. Glenn resigned from NASA in January 1964. He planned to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Ohio, but an injury in February 1964 forced his withdrawal. He retired from the Marine Corps the following year. He lost a close primary election in 1970. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn first won election to the Senate in 1974 and served for 24 years until January 1999. In 1998, while still a sitting Senator, Glenn flew on the "Discovery" space shuttle's STS-95 mission, and became the oldest person to fly in space and the only person
John Glenn High School (Walkerton, Indiana) Indiana Department of Public Instruction. The school was dedicated on October 20, 1968 with NASA astronaut John Glenn present. Glenn has won 18 state spell bowl competitions. John Glenn is given a score of 7/10 on greatschools.org. The school has scored higher than the state averages on the End-of-Course-Assessments given by the state of Indiana. The student-teacher ratio is slightly larger than the state average at 20 (Indiana average is 17) Source: 1NCES, 2008-2009 John Glenn offers 13 AP and college-credit courses including : John Glenn offers the following foreign languages: Spanish French Chinese The ethnic make-up of John Glenn