John H. Glenn Jr., a decorated combat veteran and test pilot who gained worldwide fame as the first American to orbit the Earth, went on to become a U.S. senator and, in the autumn of his life ...

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 ...

piloted by Col. John Glenn Jr. – the first American to orbit the earth. Glenn orbited three times around the globe at 17,400 miles an hour. “Don’t do that,” he was advised. “You’re ...

The world reacted on Thursday to the death of John H. Glenn Jr. with an outpouring of remembrance and praise for the decorated combat veteran and test pilot who became the first American to orbit ...

Glenn wasn’t even the first American in space ... among the American public that we had a man in orbit,” recalled John Logsdon, professor emeritus in George Washington University’s Space ...

Read our full obituary here. On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn rode the Friendship 7 capsule into space, the first time an American orbited the Earth. In this image, Glenn enters the capsule with ...

Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth ... but it changed the space race and restored American pride. President John F. Kennedy watched the news from the Oval Office, and then came out ...

John Glenn, Marine Corps combat pilot, pioneer of human exploration and later a longtime United States senator, became the first American to orbit the Earth on this day in history, Feb. 20, ...

John Glenn, who captured the nation’s attention in 1962 as the first American to orbit the Earth during a tense time when the United States sought supremacy over the Soviet Union in the space ...

John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and a longtime US senator, died Thursday, according to the Ohio State University. He was 95. It was announced Wednesday that Glenn had been ...