Harrison Ford will receive an award for his philanthropy from the global surgery and training nonprofit Operation Smile.

Ohio’s correction officers could soon be armed with tasers. “This is very rushed,” policy director at Ohio Justice and Policy ...

All Mercury astronauts came from the fighter pilot community. But one of them had a career that really stands out. It was the only Marine among them, John Glenn. After flying Corsairs in WWII, he ...

PLYMOUTH - Postseason wins have been very scarce for John Glenn High School’s softball program so to beat Plymouth 4-2 Monday ...

NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter became the fourth American to go to space and the second American to orbit the Earth. Carpenter was one of NASA’s first group of astronauts known as the "Mercury Seven.” ...

Long before his space travels, John Glenn was already an experienced fighter pilot, having served in World War II. When he was called up to fly in the Korean War, he asked for the Boston Red Sox ...

a test pilot, an astronaut, U.S. senator and a statesman. Some men would feel entitled to brag about any of these achievements but the hallmark of Glenn was humility. Obituary: John Glenn ...

1954-1956 – After the Korean conflict, Glenn attends test pilot school at the Naval Air ... Lyn christens the Mobile Landing Platform John Glenn, a US Navy ship. May 2014 – Undergoes ...

John Glenn by Henry C. Caselli, Jr., 1998 is in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. NPG, gift of Taylor Energy Company LLC, © Henry C ...

John Glenn, center, trains at Johnson Space Center ... safe and steady as a senatorial policymaker, reliable as a pilot. One of the original Mercury astronauts, Glenn was chosen by NASA in a ...

“I think the thing that really irked Shepard about Glenn, and this is why they ... and wanted it to be about who was the best pilot. While John was off entertaining questions like ‘what ...

The film captures the pivotal events in John Glenn's life: his humble beginnings ... his envelope-pushing exploits as a Naval test pilot; and his transition to astronaut during the Cold War.