John Glenn, the former astronaut and U.S. senator who became the first American to orbit the earth, will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, Fox News has learned.
(FOX)- All other funeral activities will take place in Ohio. It appeared there was an initial plan for the late senator to lie in state or honor in the Capitol Rotunda. Fox News is told the plan is for Glenn to be buried at Arlington.
John Herschel Glenn Jr., who died Thursday in Columbus at the age of 95, had two major career paths that often intersected: flying and politics, and he soared in both of them.
Before he gained fame orbiting the world, he was a fighter pilot in two wars, and as a test pilot, he set a transcontinental speed record. He later served 24 years in the Senate from Ohio. A rare setback was a failed 1984 run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
His long political career enabled him to return to space in the shuttle Discovery in 1998, a cosmic victory lap that he relished and turned into a teachable moment about growing old. He holds the record for the oldest person in space.