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Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ms. Johnson died at the age of 101 in 2020.John Herschel Glenn was born in Cambridge, Ohio on July 18, 1921, to a plumber father, and a school-teacher mother. He took his first airplane ride (with his father) when he was eight-years-old, and immediately became interested in building balsa-wood model airplane kits. He washed cars and sold rhubarb to earn enough to buy a bicycle, which he used to deliver newspapers for more spending money. He liked feeling in control and independent. In high school, Glenn played football, basketball, and tennis. After graduating, he entered Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, where he first studied chemistry. While in college, he acquired a private pilot%u2019s license, then earned a BS in Engineering in 1943. When the U.S. entered World War II, he joined the Army Air Corps, but wasn%u2019t called to active duty, so he enlisted in the Navy, then transferred to the Marines. In total, he flew 57 combat missions against the Japanese, and was eventually awarded two Distinguished Flying Crosses and ten Air Medals. In 1943, Glenn married Annie Castor, a girl he%u2019d know since they were toddlers. A music major at Muskingum College, liant black mathematician%u2014verified all the calculations. She later worked on the rendezvous paths for the lunar lander and the command module for the Apollo flights to the Moon. Katherine and her coworkers were well known within NASA, but not by the general public%u2014until the release of the book and movie Hidden Figures, in the 21st century. She was the co-author of 26 scientific papers, and received numerous honors and awards, including the