A camera onboard the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft photographs astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. during his historic flight on February 20, 1962. An engineer and a technician check out an ion engine in ...

The next U.S. commercial spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station will launch under the name of the first American to orbit Earth, lifting off atop a modern version of the rocket on ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a former US senator. March 1942-Enlists in the Naval Aviation Cadet Program and upon completing flight ...

John Herschel Glenn Jr. was born on July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio. He grew up in an average American middle-class home.

Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth. The Mercury-Atlas 6 flight on ...

Glenn was born in 1921 a few miles away in Cambridge, Ohio, but spent almost his entire youth in this dignified home, a picture-postcard image of the American heartland. The future U.S. Marine Corps ...

Half a century ago, John Glenn went out for a pack of gum. That’s the way he described it, anyway. “Well, I’m going down to the corner to buy some chewing gum,” he told his wife Annie, just as he told ...