John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth, dies aged 95 – BBC News bbc.com

Former astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, dies aged 95. Glenn served 24 years as a US senator from Ohio and later became the oldest person to be sent into space. Glenn died on Thursday afternoon at the James cancer hospital in Columbus, according to Hank Wilson of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. Ohio governor John Kasich.