"John Glenn, the former astronaut and US senator from Ohio, <a href=""http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/john-glenn-dead/index.html"">died Thursday, December 8</a>, according to Ohio State University. He was 95. Glenn became the <a href=""http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2012/02/17/natpkg-john-glenn-orbits-earth.nasa-universal-newsreel"" target=""_blank"">first American to orbit the Earth</a> in 1962."