1 It is no easy job to run against John Glenn, Ohio's Democratic senator.

2 John Glenn, D-Ohio, intends to introduce legislation that would prohibit ships from discharging organism-laced ballast water in estuaries.

3 John Glenn was a pioneer in space travel.

4 On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became thethird American in space and the first to make a full orbit of the Earth.

5 John Glenn dubbed him "the eighth astronaut" of NASA's original Mercury Seven.

6 Among the speakers were Senators Sam Nunn, John Glenn, Chuck Robb, Joe Lieberman, John Breaux, Jay Rockefeller,[] and Al Gore.

7 John Glenn, Foreign Policy Director for the German Marshall Fund of the United States, says the Obama administration will likely ask the Europeans for more military trainers and civilian personnel.

8 John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, carried pureed applesauce in squeezable tubes on his initial space flight.

9 Within five years, John Glenn was orbiting Earth, and less than a decade after that, we put a man on the moon.

10 John Glenn, the American who first orbited the Earth, was showered with 3,529 tonnes of ticker tape when he got back.

11 On a mission: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.

12 This shuttle mission marked the return ofU.S. Senator—and pioneering astronaut—John Glenn to space.

13 John Glenn climbed into his tiny spacecraft on top of the huge Atlas rocket.

14 The fire was so big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited Earth.

15 In 1962, when John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, he also clearly demonstrated that lights at night could trace human activity from space.

16 UPDATE: I just received an e-mail from John Glenn, who claims that he is no longer working with Travis Wright on the Blade Runner sequel.

17 John Glenn, America's first man to eat anything in the near-weightless environment of Earth orbit, found the task of eating fairly easy, but found the menu to be limited.

18 Chosen for the US astronaut programme in 1958, Jerrie Cobb had twice as many flight hours to her name as John Glenn, who became the first American to orbit the earth.

19 Out of the seven original Mercury astronauts, three of them were selected as candidates for the first manned U.S. spaceflight: John Glenn, Gus Grissom and Shepard.

20 The STS-95 mission also marked the return of pioneering Mercury astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn to space.