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Read the following sentences from the text.
“In 1962, John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit Earth. Two cosmonauts from the former Soviet Union already had orbited Earth, including Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. Two American astronauts had been in space, but neither had orbited the planet….He made three orbits of Earth and spent about five hours in space. In 1998, NASA announced that John Glenn would be making a second spaceflight….The purpose of his flight was to study the effects of spaceflight on the elderly. NASA doctors had followed Glenn’s health since he first became an astronaut. They were able to use that data to understand how spaceflight affected him on his second flight.”
What conclusion can you draw from this evidence about John Glenn?
John Glenn helped NASA learn different important things about space throughout his career.
John Glenn wanted to go to space a third time but did not get to because he died in 2016.
John Glenn always made the other astronauts on his missions laugh so they wouldn’t be nervous.
John Glenn saved the Mercury spacecraft when it was going to fail as he orbited the Earth in 1962.