COLUMBUS – Travelers who flew out of Port Columbus International Airport before midday Tuesday will return to a different airport.
The airport is being renamed in honor of astronaut John Glenn at a ceremony Tuesday (at 11:00 a.m.).
Port Columbus will be known as John Glenn Columbus International Airport.
State lawmakers voted on a bill last month to authorize the renaming. Glenn, now 94, his wife Annie, Republican House Speaker Clifford Rosenberger and Democratic Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther are expected at the event.
Glenn, who was raised in New Concord, was the first American to orbit the earth in 1962. He was a member of NASA’s Mercury Seven crew that led the U.S. into space. With Scott Carpenter’s death in 2013, he became the crew’s last surviving member.