John Glenn, 1st US astronaut to orbit Earth has died

COLUMBUS, OH (AP) -Former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn has died.

He had been hospitalized for more than a week.

Hank Wilson with Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs said Wednesday that the 95-year-old Glenn was at the James Cancer Hospital.

Glenn apologized for his poor eyesight this year at the renaming of Columbus’ airport after him. He said then he’d lost some of his eyesight because of macular degeneration and a small stroke. Glenn had a heart valve replacement in 2014.

Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. He served as a U.S. senator from Ohio from 1974 to 1999.

John Glenn was 95 years old.

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