GLENN

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• GLENN (noun)
  The noun GLENN has 1 sense:

1. made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)

  Familiarity information: GLENN used as a noun is very rare.

• GLENN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Glenn; John Glenn; John Herschel Glenn Jr.

Instance hypernyms:

astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft)

senator (a member of a senate)

 Context examples 

“We have a lot more work to do, but so far this is very promising,” said Glenn Gaudette, PhD, professor of biomedical engineering at WPI and corresponding author of the paper.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)

Last month, a scale model of the QueSST design completed testing in the 8-by 6-foot supersonic wind tunnel at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.

(NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane, NASA)

What is startling about the results is that we were able to associate for the first time the variations in solar wind and the response in the stratosphere - and that the response to these variations is so quick for such a large area, said JPL's Glenn Orton, part of the observing team.

(Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind, NASA)

A global research team that includes Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has spectroscopically dissected the infrared light from Uranus captured by the 26.25-foot (8-meter) Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)