KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth, Senator John Herschel Glenn Jr. is launched into space again as a payload specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery on October 29, 1998. At 77 years of age, Glenn was the oldest human ever to travel in space.

Detailed explanation-2: -Again, he came in third, following two Russian cosmonauts: Yuri Gagarin (April 1961) and Gherman Titov (August 1961). Glenn’s orbital flight meant that the U.S. was catching up to the Soviet Union in space.

Detailed explanation-3: -Project Mercury put the 1st American in space Of these magnificent seven, America’s first astronauts, NASA chose Shepard to become the first American to travel into space. Meanwhile, the first American to orbit Earth was John Glenn, aboard Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962.