John Glenn, American Hero - PBS documentary profile of John Glenn, who as a NASA Project Mercury astronaut during the Space Race, became the first American to orbit the Earth in Friendship 7, and now, as a senator from Ohio, becomes the oldest person in space on the Space Shuttle Discovery. Also includes a look at the International Space Station, missions to Mars, and the future of space ...

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Forty years ago, when John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, it not only got the United States space program moving with a vengeance, it helped spark a new commitment to broadcast news --for the first time since the beginning of television.