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stormwyrm [soylentnews.org] writes:

Astronaut and senator John Glenn [wikipedia.org] passed away December 8, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. He was 95. A cause of death was not announced. From the Columbus Dispatch [dispatch.com]:

His legend is otherworldly and now, at age 95, so is John Glenn.

An authentic hero and genuine American icon, Glenn died this afternoon surrounded by family at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus after a remarkably healthy life spent almost from the cradle with Annie, his beloved wife of 73 years, who survives.

[…]As a Marine Corps pilot, he broke the transcontinental flight speed record before being the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962 and, 36 years later at age 77 in 1998, becoming the oldest man in space as a member of the seven-astronaut crew of the shuttle Discovery.

Other coverage from the Guardian [theguardian.com], the New York Times [nytimes.com], and NPR [npr.org].

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