WATCH LIVE: Memorial for former senator and pioneering astronaut John Glenn

The body of the late senator and pioneering astronaut John Glenn will being transferred from the Ohio Statehouse to the site of his memorial service at Mershon Auditorium on the campus of Ohio State University, Saturday afternoon.

Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth and died Thursday Dec. 8, at the age of 95. Later he led a distinguished career representing Ohio in the U.S. Senate.

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