Starting on July 28, in Washington, D.C., the museum will welcome visitors to view "Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall," ...

Christopher Browne, John and Adrienne Mars Director, National Air and Space Museum Curators of the five new exhibitions ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars ...

John Herschel Glenn Jr. was born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio, and grew up in New Concord, Ohio. His father ran a plumbing supply business and later had a Chevrolet dealership.

Remembering John Glenn’s historic return to space John Glenn’s first spaceflight made him a legend in 1962. And nearly four decades later, his last spaceflight at age 77 made him a pioneer.

On the morning of February 20, 1962 -- exactly 60 years ago -- astronaut John Glenn was strapped into a capsule he dubbed Friendship 7 that was poised on an Atlas rocket with enough firepower to ...

Sunday marks 60 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. On Feb. 20, 1962, the “Mercury Seven” member set out on the agency’s three-orbit Mercury-Atlas ...

It all ended triumphantly however and John Glenn’s three Earth orbits in his tiny Mercury Friendship 7 capsule put NASA back in the space race against the Soviets.

John’s wife Annie came on the line, sounding rock-solid. Glenn told her what was happening inside the capsule, and about the blue Florida sky he could see out his window.

MERCURY RISING John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War By Jeff Shesol Hyperbole shrouds few topics in history so much as the human encounter with outer space. Astronauts ...

The oldest Astronaut, 38-year-old Marine Col. John Glenn—blond, crew-cutted, amiable and easy-going-told me: "Space travel is going to be accomplished, and we want to be in on it.