Former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn has died at the age of 95. Hank Wilson with the John Glenn School of Public Affairs says Glenn died Thursday afternoon at the James Cancer Hospital in ...

NBC News' Jay Barbree tells the story behind John Glenn's Project Mercury spaceflight in 1962 ... and behind the mysterious "fireflies" he saw while he orbited the earth.

Fireflies light up summer nights across the Carolinas, but climate change, habitat loss and light pollution threaten their ...

First American to orbit Earth, then senator, later flew on space shuttle. — -- John Glenn, the first American astronaut to orbit the earth and a legendary figure in the American space flight ...

Fifty years ago, American scientists and engineers couldn’t know for sure what effect an orbital spaceflight would have on American astronaut Col. John H. Glenn. The Soviets already had orbited ...

UFO hunters believe this month's reappearance of ‘fireflies' on NASA Helioviewer footage - a phenomena first reported by astronaut John Glenn in 1962 - is actually evidence of alien life.

Fifty years ago, John H. Glenn Jr., strapped into a tiny Mercury capsule known as Friendship 7 and hurtled into orbit, taking America’s space-age dreams along with him ...

John Glenn Columbus International Airport and Rickenbacker International Airport have added 11 new nonstop routes. Eight are new destinations and three are returning destinations.

Astronaut John Glenn died on Dec. 8 at 95. ... were literally thousands of tiny luminous objects that glowed in the black sky like fireflies. I was riding slowly through them, ...

John Herschel Glenn, Jr.—an astronaut, fighter pilot, and U.S. senator who is best known for being the first American to orbit the planet—died on Thursday at age 95. Glenn was of Earth, but he ...