“If there is one thing I’ve learned in my years on this planet,
it’s that the happiest and most fulfilled people I’ve known
are those who devoted themselves to something bigger
and more profound than merely their own self-interest.”
~ John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling three times.He was one of the “Mercury Seven” group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America’s first astronauts…Source