(image: public domain) Summary (if this is mostly accurate): 1941 Army 1942 Navy 1943 Marines 1948 NAS flight instructor 1954 Navy test pilot school (graduated) 1959 NASA 1962 – July, testified before the House Space Committee in favor of excluding women from the NASA astronaut program. Interesting how this was left out of all the establishment eulogies yesterday. 1964 – Jan. 16, resigns NASA to announce candidacy for U.S. Senate (later withdraws after hitting his head on a bathtub) 1975-1999 U.S. Senate (D, OH) For some time, between his first Senate run in 1964 and his Senate election in 1974, he served in an “executive” capacity at RC … Continue reading John Glenn (1921-2016): A Life In Service to the State