Chosen for the US astronaut programme in 1958, Jerrie Cobb had twice as many flight hours to her name as John Glenn, who became the first American to orbit the earth.

Jerrie Cobb在1958年被选入美国航天员计划，她的飞行时间是美国第一个环绕地球的人John Glenn的两倍。

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John Glenn dubbed him "the eighth astronaut" of NASA's original Mercury Seven.

约翰格林授予他是NASA当初Mercury Seven中的“第八位宇航员”的称号。

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"To sit back and let fate play its hand out and never influence it is not the way man was meant to operate." - John Glenn, Astronaut.

“往后坐让命运打完它手上的牌，从不影响它不是人应当运作的方式。”—约翰·格伦(太空人)。

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The fire was so big that American astronaut John Glenn could see it from space as he orbited Earth.

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John Glenn, the former astronaut who was then a senator from Ohio, put it this way: "I know the Great Lakes.

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NASA announced that the astronaut would be John Glenn.

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Musician Bob Dylan, astronaut John Glenn, and Israeli President Shimon Peres were among the Medal of Freedom recipients.

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American astronaut Alan Shepard made a suborbital flight later that year, and John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962.

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