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John Glenn (1921–2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and politician. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States. He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth person and third American in space. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Ohio. In 1998, Glenn flew on the Discovery space shuttle's STS-95 mission, making him the oldest person to fly in space and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. (Full article...)
See WT:TFA#Fourth quarter 2018 blurbs. This is just a suggested blurb ... thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 19:21, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
- Seems good to me. Should we try to including the Presidential Medal of Freedom? He received it in 2012; the most recent space-related award before that was 1970. I am fine with leaving it out, thought I would mention the idea. Kees08 (Talk) 23:11, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
- Sure thing, added. - Dank (push to talk) 00:09, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, looks good to me. How much of a heads up do I get before it runs? I want to go through it again now that I am (theoretically) a better editor, but I have some other projects I am working on right now. Kees08 (Talk) 02:19, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Your call ... you can add it to WP:TFAP for any date within 2 years, as long as the date has some kind of date relevance to the article. - Dank (push to talk) 02:32, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Oh! I thought you two were scheduling the fourth quarter of this year with those TFAs. Very good, thanks. Kees08 (Talk) 02:35, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Your call ... you can add it to WP:TFAP for any date within 2 years, as long as the date has some kind of date relevance to the article. - Dank (push to talk) 02:32, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks, looks good to me. How much of a heads up do I get before it runs? I want to go through it again now that I am (theoretically) a better editor, but I have some other projects I am working on right now. Kees08 (Talk) 02:19, 22 June 2019 (UTC)
- Sure thing, added. - Dank (push to talk) 00:09, 22 June 2019 (UTC)