 Legendary Marine astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn died December 8th at the age of 95. After the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Glenn quit college and enlisted in both the U.S. Army Air Corps and U.S. Navy before transferring to the United States Marine Corps. During World War II, he flew 59 combat missions in the South Pacific. After the war, he was a member of Marine Fighter Squadron 218 on the North China Patrol and served on Guam. In Korea, he flew 63 missions with Marine Fighter Squadron 311. As an exchange pilot with the Air Force, Glenn flew 27 missions. In the last nine days of fighting in Korea, Glenn downed three enemy aircraft along the Yalu River. After the Korean War, John Glenn was one of the Mercury 7 group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts and fly the project Mercury spacecraft. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space. After his career at NASA, Glenn served in the United States Senate, where he represented Ohio from 1974 to 1999. On October 29, 1998, while still in the Senate, Glenn became the oldest person to fly in space and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and the Space Shuttle programs. For the first time, Glenn's personal awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Congressional Gold Medal, six Distinguished Flying Crosses and a Presidential Unit Citation. John Glenn is also a member of the Congressional Space Hall of Fame. Funeral services will be held in his home state of Ohio over the next couple of days before he is finally laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.