In this February 1962 photo made available by NASA, astronaut John Glenn looks into a Celestial Training Device globe at the Aeromedical Laboratory at Cape Canaveral, Fla.
American flags are at half staff around Durango and around the nation in memory of John Glenn, the pioneering astronaut and long-serving U.S. senator from Ohio who died Thursday at the age of 95.
President Barack Obama ordered flags at half-staff, and the order applies until sunset on the day of Glenn’s interment. Glenn will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, but the timing of which yet to be announced.
Glenn made history in 1962 as the first NASA astronaut to circle the planet – as a follow-up to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s orbital feat a year earlier.
Herald Staff
