FILE - In this Friday, May 10, 1963 file photo, astronaut John Glenn performs a test in the telemetry control room aboard the NASA tracking ship, the Coastal Sentry, with the Mercury communication center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth who later spent 24 years representing Ohio in the Senate, died Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, at the age of 95. (AP Photo/File)